Yesterday we went canoeing and we saw two cliff swallow nests. The nests were underneath a bridge. We accidentally startled the birds out of the nests. Unfortunately, we did not have the camera in the canoe, so we did not get pictures. We found a video of the nests on allaboutbirds.org. You can see it here. The nests we saw were made of much rounder balls of clay. It's hard to tell in the video, but the nests were gourd shaped.
We are a 119 km from Regina. In total we are at 2317 km from Tofino.
This is a violet-green swallow
This is a northern rough-winged swallow.
This is a singing male tree swallow and a female tree swallow.
This is a lonely barn swallow.
Very interesting!