FIRST SWALLOWS

[Guest spin cycle]

VIC will tell you i'm don't know a rook from a jackdaw and a week ago i was trying to train ducks( ;D ;D). but i do know swallows and they have arrived in this part of norfolk this morning...hooray :)

[Guest paulrstokes]

What a coincidence, as i read the post i looked out of my office window to see one also, here in leicester. roll on the summer!!!

[Geraint Parry]

Yup they were back-up here (North Wales) weekend just gone.

[Guest Vic]

I aint seen one yet, although my eyes are not as they were. But it certainly perks me up, when they do arrive. The tadpoles are now independent, in the pond; so spring is abounding with each day.

Best part of the year for me!

[Fair Play]

Did they have on wooley jumpers ;D ;D it's still freezing over the border

[thunderboult]

we have a few nesting here but have not seen them yet.

[rednyellow]

first swallows at the campsie hills today, summers here. :) :)

[Guest karl adams]

its nice to see the swallows but it would be nicer to see some summer :)

[Guest Vic]

Yes! in between swallows I did observe the beautiful bird today, Sunday 8.00.

[Guest spin cycle]

and now they've gone(dissappointed)(dissappointed)

[bewted]

where,,,there still here by the hundreds,,,,,you must be sleeping spin cycle !!

[OLDYELLOW]

yup i saw my last few a couple of days ago all this years ybs , non around today , winters here get the stew pots out and the thermals aired

[paul1]

Still one or two in the Leicestershire countryside.

[ALF]

Still here aswell

[Roland]

And here.

[Taylorsloft]

still here aswell

[thunderboult]

and here.

[Guest spin cycle]

where,,,there still here by the hundreds,,,,,you must be sleeping spin cycle !!

 

sleeping ?..i wish . none around today...perhaps its an east coast thing

[bewted]

I see few here this morning on the wires watched them other years get more and more each day then all of sudden they all gone amazes me how these little birds manage to make it all the way back to africa

 

rose,lots dont make it back to africa as they have to endure extreme hardship on the way there and back again,,you would be amazed at what they have to really go through twice a year !!!

[Guest spin cycle]

  i saw my first swallow of the year this morning...a good week earlier than last year. i'm in north norfolk...i think they were in penzance on the 21st march according to a post i saw on another site....time to get training

[blaz]

not got this far up yet .

[Guest Vic]

Nice to know that there are some  basic members, that welcome most birds in general other than our beloved pigeons. I aint seen a swallow yet, but I know this weekends forecast will see the early arrrivals into Merseyside. How about the other guy today, claiming he has a "sparrows" nest in his hedge. A dunnock maybe? but a sparrow no way! I have seen plenty of long tail tits feeding in their usual gregarious mannner this winter, which is very unusual in my neck of the woods.  

[john nico]

havnt seen any myself yet starting 2 see a lot ov wood pigeons though

[Guest kev d]

down the loft at tea time and saw my first swallow this year always cheers me up

when i see them arrive by the way im in somerset .

anybody further north seen any yet lets see how far north they are

[Guest chrisss]

north herts and not yet