Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-22 | Page 5 | Architectural Swallows

architectural swallows A correspondent of the parts paris tempa temps records the following story of a pair of swallows probably meaning house martins these taking advantage of a broken pane of glass over the door way entered and began to build a niche on the inside this particular corner was w as crossed by a bell wire 4 and each tinie time the bell was rang rung the building nest was was thrown down I 1 fa the birds would not leave their chosen site and eventually overcame the inconvenience in an ingenious ingen lou manner they constructed a tunnel round the wire giving it free play so that its movements ceased te tg affect the wall of their nest