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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Backinwellies on April 04, 2016, 07:57:45 pm
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To everyone else who like me is totally fed up of the constant wet here in South Wales ... take heart I've just seen our first swallow :)
Anyone else seen one yet??
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Don't think so but I have seen a few species of bird which I haven't seen since last autumn. Spring is finally here and you can feel the warm sun on your back and hear the birdsong, thats enough for me! :D
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No swallows here in southern Scotland, but the first skylark has been singing today, in the rain :raining:
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Spring :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:
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I heard an owl this evening, hooting at me it was as I was pulling a lamb out of a sheep. Does that count?
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I heard an owl this evening, hooting at me it was as I was pulling a lamb out of a sheep. Does that count?
No, sorry, they've been hooting and screeching here for months - set the dogs off every time (although the lamb counts).
We had a barn owl here once whose favourite trick was to wait until one of us was standing staring off into the distance, then creep up from behind and silently whoosh over our shoulder, right next to our ear - scared the living daylights out of us every time. I swear you could hear that bird laughing as it flew away :roflanim:
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I start to watch for the first swallows about now. Poor little souls will have a chilly welcome, roll on the warm sunshine!
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We heard the first skylarks on the 13th March. Lapwings started to wheel and call the week before. :excited:
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We saw our first swallows on SUnday :sunshine: :excited:
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Spotted the first, solitary swallow yesterday. Mid Wales.
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First one here yesterday evening. Always a nice feeling to see them return.
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First swallow here to in Suffolk yesterday
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Just seen two this morning here in North Lincolnshire. You beat me to the post :wave:
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First swallow seen here last night (North Yorkshire) :-)
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Saw our first one this morning. We have kept a note on the tack room notice board each year for the last 12years. Earliest was April 5th, later was April 27th. They nest in the stables almost every year and we love to see them arrive.
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I too keep a note in the diary, always has been around the 23rd April for the first arrival then the rest a week or so later and the geese bugger off at the same time . Only one year they were late, I was grumpy, worried spending the days looking skyward , a fortnight late great relief when they arrived , to me it means summers started and every things alright. Micro cctv cameras at the ready for a couple of nests :excited:
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yes I have seen a few flocks of them recently; it looks like spring is finally here, although the weather will say otherwise. ::)
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Since December we have had great swings in the weather causing migrating cranes to fly north then head back south. Like the swallows they are migrating north now but the poor swallows have found few insects this last week. Next week we should have 20 degrees so maybe plenty of insects for the swallows.
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Saw the first swallow here in the Marches on the 9th. Snowing here at present so could be a while before I see them again. The pairs of Nuthatches, Stock Doves and Goldfinches that have been visiting the bird table recently are now down to one bird at a time, so I guess they're nesting. We decided the other day that in the years since the cats we brought with us died and haven't been replaced the bird population close to the house has increased around four-fold, with new species of ground feeding birds added every year.
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1st one today :excited: - circling the goathouse... (also 1st lamb today - unplanned but not unexpected).
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First one yesterday
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First one here was a couple of days ago :thumbsup: let's hope it meens Spring is finally here
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First couple seen here this week. I would have expected to see them sooner as we are on the south coast :thinking:
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Three seen yesterday!! South Devon.
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I've been going around looking skyward , no sign of the critters here yet :(
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Same here - getting a crick in my neck. They have always arrived before May in the past. Southerly winds today so maybe they're on their way :fc:. That snow can't have helped :cold:
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After a bit of a struggle doing some DIY I stepped ( crawled ) out into the cold and breezy yard for some fresh air, no need to look up like a "moon howler" there flying up and down was a pair of swallows :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: I'm so pleased. ( there seems to be some dust blown making my eyes water )
Happy days are here
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I meant to post when I saw our first, Apr 19th, was just coming out of the barn and heard a bird noise, 'pesky robin' I thought, (they make a mess in the food tubs), then stopped in my tracks, turned round and went back in - YES! what a treat. then a pair by the 24th. looks like they are honouring us again this year. :thumbsup:
We felt like proud parents when we got 2 broods away last year. (same parents) ;D
west of West Yorkshire.
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Yaaay :excited: Just spotted a good half dozen swallows swooping about. Was starting to get a bit concerned as I hadn't seen any signs of them. Summer is on its way to Central Scotland :sunshine: :sunshine:
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One or two arrived the other day, and half a dozen more today :thumbsup: .
They brought with them the first hatch of midges of course, but since that's basically the equivalent of a packed lunch, I'll forgive them!