Our front door swallows are back again -- well, they've been back for weeks, since sometime mid-April. Usually they have cranked out one clutch of chicks by now and are at work on their second, but not this time. They have been quite slow. I was a bit concerned that, perhaps, they had gotten too old to still be a viable breeding pair.
Not to worry. Suddenly, this past Saturday, we heard peeping. Watching the nest, one of the adult birds flew in, and four tiny heads popped up, beaks open wide, hoping for the next morsel.
It took them a while, but the swallows are still on the job, laying eggs and hatching chicks.
I used to work in the silicon chip industy and coined the term "Chipmaker" as a useful on-line handle around 1992. No one actually calls me that in real life; my preferred given name is Thomas.
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