{"id":10384,"date":"2025-07-24T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:29:27","slug":"swallows-at-audubon-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/swallows-at-audubon-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Swallows At Audubon, Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year we heard of reports of an American Redstart near the Audubon Center at Chatfield. During a late afternoon in early June, we headed down to the Audubon Center to see for ourselves; we did find a nesting pair. Later when returning back to our vehicle, we stopped off near the Center. Here we found a Tree Swallow perched on the roof of a bird feeder.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tree Swallow On Feeder Roof, Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After a while, we noticed a second Swallow flying close by, so I decided to approach closer to capture this image of the female bird on the feeder roof.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Female Tree Swallow, Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Soon it became apparent that this was a breeding pair; the male bird flew in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Male And Female Tree Swallow, Breeding Pair, Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And began mating with the the female.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tree Swallow Mating, Audubon, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This continued several times over the next 15 minutes that we were there. Here is another image of the male flying in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Male Tree Swallow Flying In To Mate Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I made several images of the mating pair before we returned home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tree Swallow Mating, Audubon, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We were both fortunate to see this mating display as well as the nesting Redstart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year we heard of reports of an American Redstart near the Audubon Center at Chatfield. During a late afternoon in early June, we headed down to the Audubon Center to see for ourselves; we did find a nesting pair. Later when returning back to our vehicle, we stopped off near the Center. Here we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2018,1707,1362,1705,2017,1936,1996,2016],"class_list":["post-10384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-audubon","tag-female","tag-flight","tag-male","tag-mating","tag-perched","tag-swallows","tag-tree-swallows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t