Bird ID-Help Needed
Jun 24, 2015 16:44:47 #
I posted this in the Photo Gallery because I thought that section was better suited for this request.
I have been looking through my Sibley Field Guide & my Pocket Naturalist Guide (Birds of Cape May County) - with NO success. Hopefully, someone out there can help.
These images were shot yesterday in the marshlands of Cumberland County, NJ; but I have seen this same bird recently in Atlantic County, NJ. I was quite far away and these are the best shots I have.
Many thanks to all.
I have been looking through my Sibley Field Guide & my Pocket Naturalist Guide (Birds of Cape May County) - with NO success. Hopefully, someone out there can help.
These images were shot yesterday in the marshlands of Cumberland County, NJ; but I have seen this same bird recently in Atlantic County, NJ. I was quite far away and these are the best shots I have.
Many thanks to all.
Jun 24, 2015 16:51:00 #
Jun 24, 2015 17:02:24 #
Jun 24, 2015 17:05:18 #
DrWilk wrote:
Looks like Barn Swallows.
Just checked Sibley again and then googled "barn swallow" - you nailed it. The photos on the internet definitely match my photos. Sibley - not so much.
Thank you. Mystery solved!
Jun 24, 2015 18:54:40 #
Barn swallows are so pretty, and so graceful in flight. I had one pose on a picnic table for me last summer :)
Jun 24, 2015 20:35:21 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Barn swallows are so pretty, and so graceful in flight. I had one pose on a picnic table for me last summer :)
I had only ever noticed one before just a couple of weeks ago at a WMA in Atlantic County. I got an image of that one - again really far away - and I thought "what a pretty, sweet little bird - wonder what it is?" Then I saw 2 more just hanging out on a branch in the marshes yesterday. Had to find out what it was. Thank heaven for UHH. There was no way I would have come up with "barn swallow". Maybe I'll get to see one in flight in the next few days as well as some better images.
Jun 24, 2015 21:09:51 #
MadMikeOne wrote:
I posted this in the Photo Gallery because I thoug... (show quote)
Barn Swallows with a forked tail.
Jun 24, 2015 23:48:55 #
We have sooo many barn swallows around here building nests every where. I need to knock down a couple right over the front door. I leave them alone when they build along the barn, they only dive bomb me when I go back there to fill up the lawn mower with gas! We even get them trying to build in the garage if I leave the door open. The old timers say that you know it is time to plant corn in the spring when the barn swallows show up.
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