Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-08-22 | Page 8 | Swallows Remove Home from Abandoned House

Swallows Remove Home From Abandoned House PUEBLO, COLO. For years swallows returned each spring to their mud nests at the Female Center Cen-ter building of the Colorado State hospital just like their famous cousins of the San Juan Capistrano. They returned on the same date each year and every autumn all departed de-parted en masse, as regular as a clock. Last winter the Female Center, an old structure, was abandoned by hospital inmates in preparation for its demolition. When the swallows returned this spring they inspected the building and evidently decided that if it was not inhabited they wouldn't live in it either. So they built mud nests in eaves of newer buildings about the other old buildings on the grounds. Now while workmen tear down the old building and its deserted swallow nests, the little: feathered creatures snug in their new homes look on.