Hard to believe that June is already on our doorstep in this busy and very active spring season! May has once again been one of the most wonderful months of the year – this year being especially ...

From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...

Cliff swallows first caught my attention this year when I saw them nesting under a bridge in The Woodlands. In summers past, the bridge on Lake Woodlands Drive was a great place to see nesting barn ...

The barn swallows have fledged. Five young-of-the-year birds left a nest under the eaves of our garage on Wednesday. Others in the loose colony of swallows at our place soon followed. This has created ...

Did you ever pause on a summer day to admire the swallows doing aerial gymnastics overhead? Those swallows are designed to maneuver incredibly quickly while flying at speeds up to 40 miles/hour.

If you’ve spent any time around Dillon Reservoir you have witnessed tree swallows sweeping through the air for insects, especially early morning and evening. In fact, they can consume 1,000 mosquitoes ...

Bank Swallows are nesting in a dirt pile at a city maintenance yard near our home. This is where I watched Belted Kingfishers a few weeks ago. The kingfishers are gone, hopefully with a happy ending ...

The skies around our place west of Gilby, N.D., have turned decidedly unfriendly. It's the swallows. Barn swallows have nested on two separate buildings, and they seem to be competing for air space.

The swallows have started to gather on Plum Island and they will reach their peak by mid-August. Along the Parker River Wildlife Refuge, they feed on the bayberry on the dune side of the road, and the ...

The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow. In ...