Last September, when I was
exploring the park area around my new apartment, I found an abandoned colony underneath one of the bridges over the bayou.
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| The bridge over the bayou. |
Many mud nests had been attached to the concrete columns and beams of the bridge. However, all the nests appeared empty and some were falling apart.
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| A couple of empty nests underneath the bridge. |
Would the colony residents return, and if so, when? I doubted that there would be any new activity at the nests until the spring. Indeed, there was little to see under the bridge until April, when the colony members came swooping back. To be continued...
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