I have not been able to figure out what this crazy violet green swallow is doing, nor can any of my birder friends. It is flying up to the window and landing--not as if it's trying to get in, nor as if it sees a rival out there. I feared that it would hurt itself, and so I pasted orange sheets of paper across the window, thinking it would not see any reflections and not consider that area as a place to land. No such luck. It just landed on the edge of the paper. It is part of a nesting pair of violet green swallows living in an Audubon-store violet green nest box right above this window. The box has an elongated oval hole to keep out unwanted species. Eventually the pair raised three young and the mystery was never solved.
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