(From Pinterest)
I watch the skies all the time now. (Well, actually, I watch the skies constantly)
Always, searching, looking, gathering clues
The Barn Swallows are starting to gather
We have around 50 or so, I can’t really keep count. They are migrating in and gathering with the ones who have lived here all summer
They rest on the electric wires, in the bushes and the trees by our house in the nighttime.
The daylight hours are full of swoops and twirls as the Mosquitos and other flying bugs become supper.
It’s very nice for us. We can sit outside into —way dark—without even a thought of a Mosquito bite.
Our Swallows still have a nest of baby birds which need to fledge.
But it won’t be long now. I sometimes wonder how those last little fledglings do it. Out of the nest, off they go. Way, way far away.
For a short time they practice, flying high with the other Swallows; everyone gathers, near and far…suspended on the wires. (Sometimes they rest for a few days, only flying off to gather food for a full tummy)
Then they all lift wing as one —-and are gone. Fading away in the sky
I hope I am home when the ‘Great Lift Off’ occurs. I’ve missed it the last two years.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
The Great Lift Off would be something to see! And I love how your spellchecker has changed Mosquito to Misquote 🙂
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Shoot! I will recheck! Thanks
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Thanks I fixed it! I should have caught it the first time.
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Nah, you don’t have to assume that things will go wrong. Mostly, they don’t!
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🙂
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I really like your tribute to the swallows. We have bats near our house which do a great job on the mosquitoes.
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We used to have bats, but I haven’t seen them in some time. Lucky You.
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You have a great insect exterminator system there.
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I sure do!
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Most migratory birds use the length of the day, the availability of food and their hormones to tell them what time of year it is. Thanks to these internal alarm clocks North American birds know when it is the fall and time to head south to their wintering grounds and when it is spring and time to migrate north to their breeding grounds.
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Thank you
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Your photos are so insightful. We look at birds but don’t see them like you do, I think. Except for a few stragglers, our swallows have left, also. But, the gold finches have arrived to eat the wild thistle seeds. They will be here for a few weeks. Bald eagles are still here…love watching them sitting on telephone poles.
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You have amazing birds. The Bald Eagles show up here in the winter, so our big birds are your spring, summer and fall birds. Lucky, lucky you!
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Love your pictures, Linda!
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Thank you, My Friend!
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Swallows are lining up here too, amazing arrays of every kind that live here. Not ready for this. lol
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Me either. I need summer to last until Christmas, then spring to happen on January 2.
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I am not ready for Fall but boy it swure sems to be coming on fast. Hope you get to see the great lift off:)
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Me too. I watch them all the time now.
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Lovely photos … growing up and leaving the nest 🙂
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Yes they are. Soon to fly away
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