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Nesting Tree Swallow 2

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An incredible find! Swallows are among the most difficult birds to photograph because they are so secretive, fast, low-flying and extremely erratic in flight. Not to mention they are very small and almost never land where you can see them. Tree swallows? Even more impossible. I found this tree swallow only after I just happened to notice it fly out of a nearly-invisible hole in a dead tree. I waited and waited in the wetlands of Soos Creek in Kent, Washington until it came back to its nest.

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Animalia, Aves, Chordata, Hirundinidae, Kent, King County, PNW, Pacific NW, Pacific Northwest, Passeriformes, Soos Creek, Tachycineta, Tachycineta bicolor, Washington, animal, bird, birdwatching, blue, fauna, fowl, natural, nature, nest, nesting, ornithology, parent, parenting, passerine, snag, songbird, summer, swallow, vertebrate, white, wild, wildlife
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An incredible find! Swallows are among the most difficult birds to photograph because they are so secretive, fast, low-flying and extremely erratic in flight. Not to mention they are very small and almost never land where you can see them. Tree swallows? Even more impossible. I found this tree swallow only after I just happened to notice it fly out of a nearly-invisible hole in a dead tree. I waited and waited in the wetlands of Soos Creek in Kent, Washington until it came back to its nest.