I've got the usual crowd of them in my carport... Might be a few less than normal but not noticeably so.

I was out there the other day cleaning and organizing. Ran a couple of deck screws into the side of the little breezeway storage shed to hang up a push broom. I put the screws up about 8 feet to let the broom handle hang down.

There was a swallow nest about a foot and a half away from the top of the broom.

I no sooner got done and mama swallow came back and saw the broom. She perched nearby and chirped and squawked at me until I took the broom down. So I dropped the screws down a foot or two and hung the broom back up... She seemed satisfied with that arrangement, so I left it.

Mike

Good foe you Mike.

They can have my shed. I have very few mosquitoes. Wish they ate ticks.

The mosquito thing isnt supposed to be true. You think it works?

I wonder if what you're seeing aren't cliff swallows? Different species, but still make mud nests. Around here those would be for sure cliff swallows, not barn.

We have a couple pairs at the marina, they build nests under the fixed dock....All goes well usually, but once in a while we get a big tide...they then gotta start over...

Barn swallows are never in flocks of hundreds at least that I've seen. They have a light tan breast whereas cliff swallows have white breasts.

I’ve got a half a dozen trying to set up shop in my chicken house. They drive me nuts but I figure they are just trying to make a living like me.