For the past few days I’ve seen the barn swallows flying around the farm. Twice I watched as two flew out of the barn but didn’t come back. This morning I spotted two on the electrical lines going to the farmhouse.
I don’t know if they will decide to make their nests in the barn this year now that we have Zip.
I will miss them if they don’t. The barn and farm will feel a little empty without them. There is a nest from last year in the woodshed, safer from Zip than the barn because it is up high in the beams on the ceiling.
All I can do is wait and see what happens. I’d rather they nest somewhere else than fall prey to Zip.
