amaplewood
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we have a thriving community of barn swallows nesting in the upper framework of our old post and beam barn. we live in north Berwick maine..
we started the spring with 8 nesting pairs. every few days, we are finding one of our swallows on the floor just below a nest site, missing its head and the breast. if this keeps up , we will lose our entire colony. I can't imagine a four legged creature that could effectively crawl upside down across the beams to get to these nests. I am thinking an owl? this happens at night. any thoughts? I have to leave the barns doors open as we also have horses that come and go.
we started the spring with 8 nesting pairs. every few days, we are finding one of our swallows on the floor just below a nest site, missing its head and the breast. if this keeps up , we will lose our entire colony. I can't imagine a four legged creature that could effectively crawl upside down across the beams to get to these nests. I am thinking an owl? this happens at night. any thoughts? I have to leave the barns doors open as we also have horses that come and go.