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Barn Swallows

Barn Swallows

It wasn’t until one day in mid-April of 1984 that we learned all those eight or ten barn swallow nests clinging to rafters of our 150 year old barn would in fact be occupied. Because we had moved in to our sadly neglected 200 year old farmhouse the previous December, we had no way of knowing if those nests were simply artifacts from the past, or nests waiting for the return of their builders.

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