first swallow

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

They have arrived in force here now

 

 

 

Hope your lot turn up Kevin

 

 

Yep, they're in! Pretty much yesterday and today. Seems less than usual, hoping it's just the advance forces with the main body following in a day or so 😄

[peatff]

Swifts and Swallows were flying round yesterday but it's a different day today with low cloud and they will have gone somewhere warmer to hunt I think. I watched a documentary about them a few years ago and some Swallows were fitted with trackers. When the weather was bad here they left the young ones in the nest and were found flying over Holland.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

First batch of Swallows have fledged and the amateur comedy value from their early flying endeavours has commenced!

[nepia]

I didn't think this thread was so old

 

Just seen my first one of the year; a bedraggled specimen on a phone wire

 

There must have been sightings around the country earlier surely...?

 

I also heard a cuckoo just once last week; presumably it was passing through

[htb]

Saw 1st swallow a fortnight ago, just passing through, resident ones now arriving. Cuckoo heard for about last week. We are high in Brecon beacons above Llandovery.

[GarethM]

Plenty of swallows already breeding up here in the Cheshire/Derbyshire borders.

 

Just can't get the little buggers to nest in the boxes under the shed gutters, might try some wooden ones instead of the plastic/concrete ones I spent a fortune fitting.

[rapalaman]

Still not seen or heard one in Chelmsford and I’m out every day with keen sight. Last few years we seem to get more swifts than swallows

[spuddog0507]

First ones where at the yard 3 wk ago and only 3 of them and seen em every day, then last Saturday there was 5 and now there is about 20 of em, The pinkfooted geese have only just left this last wk and to think 8/10 days ago there was 10 - 12,000 feeding away 2 field,s behind my yard, geese are usualy nearly all gone by late march, then only so first brood of ducks about 10 days ago and thats late,,

[Bob_z_l]

Ours have been back two weeks. Numbers growing and all pairing up and claiming/rebuilding last years nests.