A road cut through a recessional glacial lake deposit above the Columbia River provided good nesting for a group of Riparia riparia (bank swallow).
The swallows were very intent on feeding and getting food to their young inside the excavated nests. Another road cut further up the road had failed this winter and also had a steep bank with glacial lake silts exposed on the upper slope and again supporting a number of swallow burrow nests.
The swallows were very intent on feeding and getting food to their young inside the excavated nests. Another road cut further up the road had failed this winter and also had a steep bank with glacial lake silts exposed on the upper slope and again supporting a number of swallow burrow nests.
I've been trying to figure out where this is. Near Brewster?
ReplyDeleteacross the river from Brewster near the Wells Wildlife Unit.
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