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Louise Gaunt

  • Joined May 2011
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2017, 11:09:42 am »
I thought i heard them chattering yesterday, but have definitely seen them swooping about here in South Devon. So good to have them back.

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2017, 02:18:15 pm »
Just home from a holiday in the Scottish Highlands and our swallows have arrived while we were away.

Welcome back  :wave:

Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Somerset
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2017, 09:02:57 pm »
Where are you ITH? :)

Charlie1234

  • Joined Feb 2017
  • Powys
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2017, 10:00:02 pm »
Had our first 2 here today  ;D

1800ft up so must be warming up.  :excited:
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in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2017, 12:06:19 pm »
In MId Wales, Possum. Swallows were here waiting for us when we returned but we spotted them just north of Glasgow too.

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2017, 02:18:26 pm »
Hadn't seen them outside, but certainly in the barn sorting their nests out this morning. Great :-).

Blondie

  • Joined Apr 2014
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2017, 06:43:43 pm »
Saw some sand martins today while walking the dog along the coast/harbour area...

.....well i think they were sand martins. Brown colour with white under belly and stumper tail than a swallow.......

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2017, 11:13:10 am »
my day has been made , who cares my legs dont work, the US can bomb N Korea, and the election can be won by the hob goblins, the swallows have arrived and early too.

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2017, 08:27:08 am »
Just seen the first of ours back today, checking out their nest in Baloo's stable. Poor things must wish they hadn't bothered in this weather!
Anne

Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Somerset
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2017, 08:32:49 pm »
Saw three swifts swooping over Somerset cricket ground this afternoon. Can't think why. There was no sun and it was really cold. Mind you, we were making a lot of runs. :)  Perhaps it had stirred up a few insects.

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #25 on: September 09, 2017, 09:08:59 pm »
A sad day , late morning and they are nearly all gone, having counted up to 70 birds on the steading roof in the last week we now have 5 fledglings and one adult left , one of the fledglings is from another brood (  :'( yes I did shed a tear ).
 I do so miss them when they're gone  the end of another summer , the haylage is in ,the wood is cut for the winter and beyond , enough propane for a couple of years, spare fuel for the generator  and freezers full of the gardens bounty, with yet still more to come.
And then this evening the first of the geese arrive , as My old friend Derwent May said, its all part of a natural calendar that has no dates.
All I need to do now is get the legs working , but even that's beyond my DIY skills , so I'm told....
Roll on next April , I'll be waiting

Sorry its a bit of a ramble, just tired and emotional  :-\

 

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #26 on: September 09, 2017, 09:22:06 pm »
Yes our are gone too....

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #27 on: September 09, 2017, 11:17:23 pm »
 :'( :'( :'(

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #28 on: September 09, 2017, 11:17:54 pm »
We thought our swallows had gone yesterday but then a red kite (not seen one here before) was circling above us, being escorted from the scene by a buzzard and a huge flock of screaming swallows.


We have a nest of 4 still to fledge, and the parents are certainly feeding them.  The nest is in a shed which MrF is dismantling, very slowly.  Initially there were a couple of sparrow nests with young in, then the swallow, so the rest of the shed can't be taken down until the babies have fledged and also left for Africa, so they have somewhere to roost at night.  Last year a late brood didn't leave until mid-October, although the parents left as soon as the young had fledged.


Of the fairly large numbers hatched here each year, very few come back in the spring - it's such a perilous journey.
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Re: First swallow arrived today
« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2017, 08:29:30 am »
Suddenly realised on Wednesday the sky had gone quiet ...... They have all left  :(
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