Tree Swallow - Iona Beach Regional Park, BC
Our first splash of color here in Metro Vancouver came as a Tree Swallow and some apple flower buds. Along the walk between the two ponds at Iona Beach Regional Park there are a couple of nest boxes that house very content tree swallows. This male was protecting his hard won swallow home from an apple tree feet from the nest box on a stick. Tree swallows are the first of our migrating swallows and always mean that spring is here.