[Magdalen] Big day for the birds!

[Grace Cangialosi]

This morning the first hummingbird visited the feeder on the front porch AND the barn swallows have arrived and are bickering over their nest, also on the front porch! There are at least three of them, maybe four, and they keep chasing each other off the nest. Eventually one pair will settle in and start laying eggs. Others may go down to the nest in the horse shed, though that nest isn't used every year.