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Not a record I'm sure but on my walk yesterday afternoon I saw my first swallow of 2017.
The hedges are getting greener too.
The hedges are getting greener too.
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Ah, so like a typical Funster going full timing then?So for two years they eat, sleep and mate totally on the wing never landing until after* covering 1000's of miles !
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let us know if ya hear one x
We have several pairs if cooing **** pigeons at the min Mo lol drive Amanda mad xWill a couple cooing poxy pigeons do....
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drive Amanda mad
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We're in Averton France and saw some swallow for the first time Saturday and remarked that they are on the way to UK and will get there before us. Swooping and diving. A lovely sight.Saw swallows weeks ago in Spain and saw some yesterday at La Mailleraye-sur-Seine.
They are on their way to the UK and not far away..........like us.
Richard.
I will not fill my eaves in as i consider the swifts were sitting tennents when we bought the house.They give us hours of pleasure watching themLove swifts and to hear them chasing one another 'screaming' around the rooftops is a sure sound of the coming of spring.
Sadly swifts are also in decline due in part to the loss of nesting habitats under the eaves of roofs that understandably are being sealed to keep the heat in. They have become so reliant on man and his homes.
The young swifts leave the nests in August and after a day or two of getting the use of those scimiter shaped wings fly non-stop to over-winter in mid Africa and then back to the original nesting grounds the following spring/summer here in the UK, then once more back to Africa and not until the second summer here do they actually stop flying and land to nest in the same area that they were born. If they fall to the ground they are unable to take off again and will die. So for two years they eat, sleep and mate totally on the wing never landing till then covering 1000's of miles !
If you are fortunate to have swifts in your roof and are considering improvements then please wait till they have left in August and include a swift nest box ot two when you carry out the work. Our skies will be a far far sadder place without these delightful acrobats. More amazing facts below:
http://www.swift-conservation.org/
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