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Spring Cliff Swallow Images

By Mia McPherson|April 14th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Cliff Swallows, Utah|Tags: adult, back view, Cliff Swallow, marsh, migration, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, return, road, spring, swallow, swallows, warming, wetlands|

I was able to focus on a nearby adult Cliff Swallow as it warmed up on the dirt auto tour loop road and take a nice series of images of it in the soft light.

Return of the Tree Swallows

By Mia McPherson|March 25th, 2015|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Beaverhead County, Birds, Box Elder County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Tree Swallows, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding season, bug eating machines, first of year, flight, flock, flying, male, marsh, migration, nest box, nesting box, phragmites, phrags, refuge, return, spring, stand, swallow, swallows, Tachycineta bicolor, Tree Swallow|

Not only are Tree Swallows colorful and beautiful they are bug-zapping machines and keep the number of flying insects down.