Swallow, Swift and Martin watch!

[Bonzo dog]

Saw some swallows flying around today in Surrey, any day now they'll be off.

 

[Cyres]

Whilst playing tennis this am in Chipping Sodbury I saw lots of swallow and house martins migrating.
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[tattie]

A mildish sort of day today if you can have that with an East breeze.

That's the winter wheat sown up behind mine and at the same time the next door neighbours were at the spring barley with 2 combines working away.

The conservation flower crop will be going in next I would think, harrowed and drilled.

Plenty bats about tonight and hardly any geese at the burn tonight, but in saying that they have been in big numbers the last few weeks and always move on after a spell.

No sign of the lone swallow tonight.

The year has gone in fast and no summer so to speak of.

Cheers

 

[downwind]

I saw quite a lot of Swallows hawking about in North Devon yesterday when I was on my travels. Hope they find enough fuel for their upcoming long journey.

 

[Long drag]

Seen them again today, in the same fields.

 

[old 30-06]

Lots of Swallows and Swifts in Singapore last week !

 

[ndt man]

A lot of swifts along the coast In Madeira today and I can't say I blame them ..

 

[Lampwick]

Single Swallow yesterday battling a stiff breeze!

Latest I’ve seen one around here.

 

[foxinmad]

I still see a family of 6 swifts here yet, the youngsters were getting fed on the wing 2 weeks ago, I can't remember seeing them here as late on in the season, 18m west of Edinburgh.

 

[Jelen]

Saw one swallow/martin fighting the wind today. I thought they'd all gone south by now.

 

[basil]

Working in Godney on the Somerset levels today.
Torrential rain and about ten or fifteen Swallows are flying low over the field next to me.

 

[Pelyma]

Quite a few passed through yesterday, early ones were heading north, but most were going east, we are on the Sussex coast.

 

[Lampwick]

Won’t be long now! The nights are drawing out nicely.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Won’t be long now! The nights are drawing out nicely.

Bring it and them on!
Lovely sunrise this a.m. makes an oul fella just want to get out there - that and a young lab doing her best to create a new opening in the door…

 

[flatliner]

Bring it and them on!
Lovely sunrise this a.m. makes an oul fella just want to get out there - that and a young lab doing her best to create a new opening in the door…

Certainly a cracking March morning

 

[camodog]

Great to hear birdsong in the mornings again too.
I expect to see, or hear reports of the first sandmartins on the Wyre in a week or ten days time.

 

[Long drag]

Apparently 2 Swallows have been see in the North of Ireland today.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Apparently 2 Swallows have been see in the North of Ireland today.

Bloody hell - bucketing here now!

 

[Mungo]

What’s the earliest anyone’s seen a swift in the Scottish Central Belt/Lothians/Fife?

 

[njc110381]

I was in the FoD last weekend and saw a few flying over Cannop ponds. Couldn't identify swift or swallow at distance and without glass but another lady nearby was watching and commented that it was nice to see them so early.