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Barn swallows are semi-colonial, settling in groups from a single pair to a few dozen pairs, particularly in larger wooden structures housing animals. The same individuals often breed at the same site year after year, although settlement choices have been experimentally shown to be predicted by nest availability rather than any characteristics ...
El Rancho de las Golondrinas (The Ranch of the Swallows), a historic rancho and now a living history museum, is strategically located on what was once the Camino Real, the Royal Road that extended from Mexico City to Santa Fe. The ranch provided goods for trade and was a place where the caravans that plied the road would stop on their journey ...
Rancho Simi was the earliest Spanish colonial land grant within Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. [3] At 113,000 acres, Rancho Simi was one of the state's largest land grants. [4] The headquarters of the rancho served as the home of Robert P. Strathearn (and is thus known as the Strathearn House), built in 1892–93. The home remained in the ...
An artificial purple martin nesting colony The barn swallow is the national bird of Estonia. [48] They also are one of the most depicted birds on postage stamps around the world. [49] [50] [51] Swallows coexist well with humans because of their beneficial role as insect eaters, and some species have readily adapted to nesting in and around ...
A housebarn is a combined house and barn. Barndominium: a type of house that includes living space attached to either a workshop or a barn, typically for horses, or a large vehicle such as a recreational vehicle or a large recreational boat; Byre-dwelling: farmhouse with people and livestock under one roof
Fourteen homes that sold for $500,000 or more led home sales for Greater Akron the week of April 22, including one in Bath with its own horse barn.
Mar. 8—TWO RESTAURANTS are on the move. Fire and Spice Bistro ended its run inside a colonial barn in Newfields last month. The full-service new American bistro is moving to 47 Washington St. in ...
Orcutt bought the property in 1917, [5] and hired architect L.G. Knipe (who designed some of the original campus structures of Arizona State University) to design his home on the ranch. The 3,060-square-foot (284 m 2) residence, in the blend of Spanish Colonial Revival Style and Mission Revival Style architecture, was completed in approximately ...