I left the house on this fine sunny morning and found myself coming to a stop just off the porch and looking up.  I could hear a bunch of birds but didn't see anything.  All of a sudden several birds flew in and landed on a utility wire above my head.  I focused my aging eyes and saw that they were Violet-Green Swallows... very vocal Violet-Green Swallows.  There were a bunch of them and they were flying all around the house.  This isn't really a new thing as they show up every year.  However, this was the first I had seen them in 2009.  So what did I do?  I got into my truck and powered up my iPod Touch.  I knew I could pick up our wifi from the driveway so I sent an email to my wife who was actually only about 50' away sitting in her home office.  For some reason I decided it would be easier to send an email then to open the front door and yell "swallows!" up the stairs. 

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