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Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Swallows 2022
« on: April 26, 2022, 07:56:14 am »
woke to that wonderful sound quite a few sitting on the steading roof   :excited: :excited:

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2022, 10:25:56 am »
No one was saying a word about swallows so I began to think I was too early to expect them, so thanks for that  :D
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in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2022, 01:47:50 pm »
Spotted a solitary swallow here in Mid Wales on 14th April.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2022, 02:33:05 pm »
No swallows yet, but yesterday I  was in the garden having tea with a friend who asked "do you ever see ospreys here?" "No", I replied, "but there are some on the reservoir the other side of the hill".


Five minutes later she shouted "look up!", as an osprey flew overhead carrying a 1/2lb trout  :love: .
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Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2022, 03:29:02 pm »
No swallows here yet, it is still very cold with Northeasterly winds... though some bumblebees are around.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2022, 04:18:32 pm »
No swallows yet, but yesterday I  was in the garden having tea with a friend who asked "do you ever see ospreys here?" "No", I replied, "but there are some on the reservoir the other side of the hill".


Five minutes later she shouted "look up!", as an osprey flew overhead carrying a 1/2lb trout  :love: .


Brilliant  ;D   I won't ask which reservoir as some b###### will have a go at them. I've been watching the Arkaig osprey cam for several years now. They changed nests last year (probably to get away from several thousand people watching their every move) but the new nest now has a camera too  :sunshine: . The new-last-year female Dorcha has laid her first egg so the season is under way  :excited:


We did wonder about ospreys and bird flu but the thought is that as they don't predate on birds (total piscivores) or allow any other birds near them apart from their mate, they are unlikely to catch AI.  For swallows, they do cuddle up to each other more, but also don't eat other birds, so I wonder if they will succumb. I'm unsure with Bird Flu if transmission is direct bird to bird or if mud or whatever trampled and pooed on by other birds, will transmit it. Presumably as we have to disinfect our boots and tyres, it's not only bird to bird. Watch out swallows, don't stop in Les Landes in France!
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Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2022, 02:08:27 pm »
Swallows were here on 5 April and a friend a few miles away saw hers the day before.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2022, 04:42:00 pm »
Where are you Buttermilk?


None up here in my part of southern Scotland yet.
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2022, 06:10:38 am »



None up here in my part of southern Scotland yet.


Yes they are! Saw some swooping over our field yesterday!

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2022, 07:45:15 am »
Where are you Buttermilk?


None up here in my part of southern Scotland yet.

East Yorkshire.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2022, 12:46:24 pm »
And two have turned up here (S.Scotland) this morning, sitting on the phone wires as if they'd never left  :thumbsup:  The fish will have no peace now as the swallows use their pond for their daily dip dives, drinking and washing.
That's summer here then  :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2022, 01:53:53 pm »

That's summer here then  :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:


Summer indeed...  frost here this morning. My beech hedge which I am growing to get some privacy from wannabe-housebuilders next door, has got badly frosted. Only yesterday I saw the first proper green leaves budding...

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2022, 05:03:19 pm »

That's summer here then  :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:


Summer indeed...  frost here this morning. My beech hedge which I am growing to get some privacy from wannabe-housebuilders next door, has got badly frosted. Only yesterday I saw the first proper green leaves budding...

Oh no and there's another one due tonight but not so hard. It's a good idea to put up some green windbreak mesh to protect a new hedge up here, just until it gets established.  Hopefully there are more buds to open so your hedge will be OK. But we know you can get frost in summer in Scotland  ::) - we had a hard, damaging frost on Aug 6th one year, lost a lot of veggies etc.  Tomorrow night will be a few degrees warmer  :D
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Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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Backinwellies

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Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2022, 07:20:11 pm »
still waiting here in Wales (did see one further down mountain this week.)
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Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Swallows 2022
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2022, 05:04:56 pm »

That's summer here then  :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:


Summer indeed...  frost here this morning. My beech hedge which I am growing to get some privacy from wannabe-housebuilders next door, has got badly frosted. Only yesterday I saw the first proper green leaves budding...
Not sure beech is the best choice for privacy Anke, mine completely defoliates in winter, wish I'd planted holly or a row of various conifers.
Or bamboo in a root barrier 😊

 

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