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They are little barn swallows here, even Florida deer are small...makes me laugh when they get excited about deer season here, may as well hunt for a dwarf goat !
Nonthing like deer, moose or bears up in new england !
I was chased by a bull moose once in Maine...the thing had to have been 7 feet at the shoulder. They are so big and so stupid...they're cute from a distance though. The scariest thing is when you're swimming or kayaking and a moose pops up from the middle of the lake.
They can forage for plants on the bottom of lakes and ponds :ep
 

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Curious, I've never seen them on the ground. fence, roofs, wires yes, never on the ground. They fly over the pond and vegetation areas picking off flying things.
Do you ever get dive-bombed by the swallows? I had a birdhouse once and some swallows made a nest, every time I went around the nest, they'd swoop down and attack me :lol:
 

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Do you ever get dive-bombed by the swallows? I had a birdhouse once and some swallows made a nest, every time I went around the nest, they'd swoop down and attack me :lol:
Nope. In fact the barn swallows that make their nest in the barn alley just can't understand I'm not going to hurt them, they fly out any time I go in. I really have no choice but to go near the nest since it is on the floor joist right in front of the stall coop, not 6 ' away. I've never gone real close to the tree swallows in the birdhouse on the post out by the pond though. Don't know if they would dive bomb me as a threat.
 

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Someone (OK some chicken) laid an egg today! First one in 3 weeks when the last of the big girls shut down. At 46 grams it could be either an older one restarting or a good size first egg for a pullet. Since my girls typically DON'T restart after moulting I'm assuming it is a pullet. Maybe a White Rock (Daisy) or a Columbian Wyandotte (Ana or Sophia) based on comb and wattles.
 

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