Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!mizar.usc.edu!burhans From: burhans@mizar.usc.edu (Mustang Sally) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: swallows return to Capistrano Message-ID: <31375@usc> Date: 26 Mar 91 08:03:17 GMT References: <2217@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> Sender: news@usc Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu In article tjo@bugatti.siemens.com (Tom Ostrand) > >>Do the majority of the swallows really arrive on March 19? >>Why is there return date even close to precise - why don;t they wait >>for favourable weather along the way? > >A few years ago I was in San Diego for a meeting in EARLY MARCH, and >took a couple of days to drive up the southern Cal coast. Naturally >I stopped at Capistrano, and there were plenty of swallows all over >the place, swooping in and out of the mission. I tried to find >someone who could tell me why they had arrived EARLY that year, but While waiting for my carpool person I picked up a recent issue of Westway and it had a small blurb about the swallows returning to Capistrano and it said they don't always come back on the same day so the town holds a month long celebration during March. -- Jackie Burhans (burhans@usc.edu) Data Stylist, USC Student Affairs