About 25 years ago, our family was camping at Assateague Island State Park. An early riser, I usually woke before anyone else and would sit in a folding chair to soak in the sounds of the waves ...

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

Recent sightings (through Nov. 25), as reported to Mass Audubon. A late ruby-throated or perhaps black-chinned hummingbird appeared at a feeder in Cummaquid. A survey of Monomoy National Wildlife ...

Our area hosts six different swallow species. The largest of these is the purple martin. Barn and tree swallows may be the most familiar to you and they reach about 6½ inches in size. Both are rather ...

I sat on the railing of the boardwalk to watch the aerial display, a display every bit as impressive as the air shows put on by the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds. All around and above me and ceaselessly ...

I sat on the railing of the boardwalk to watch the aerial display, a display every bit as impressive as the air shows put on by the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds. All around and above me and ceaselessly ...

Cliff swallows indeed prefer cliffs, building colonies of their gourd-shaped nests along the sheer vertical surfaces, but they also love concrete bridges over creeks and rivers. The underside of ...

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Cliff Swallows have made their home in nests of mud along the store fronts at Eldersburg Crossing Shopping Center. Barn Swallows in their nests of mud under the awning of Michael's at Eldersburg ...

After showing an adult barn swallow at its nest last week, I couldn’t resist showing a nestling from the same nest. Naked and blind at the time of hatching, a baby barn swallow quickly grows fluffy ...