Topic: First sightings!

[telboy]

House Martins.
Sky tonight was full of them as we sat eating our second BbQ.
What a joy!

[emmy1978]

Lovely. Had them in my old house. Miss them now I live in flats!

[allaboutliverpool]

Where are you telboy?

They have not arrived at the Mersey Riviera yet.

We had one nest last year but the magpies have learned to fly up to the nests, hang on, and pull them down. They then eat the nestlings. So maybe they wont be back after such a trauma.


http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments1_homepage.html

[allaboutliverpool]

24 hours later they have arrived in Liverpool!

[RobinOfTheHood]

First cuckoo and first swift yesterday! We've had the housemartins and swallows since, I think, the 18th.

South Yorks.

Does this mean it's summertime?  ;D

[Trixiebelle]

It means it's time to plant the runner beans out RobinO' :D

[RobinOfTheHood]

But I haven't even sown them yet!

I'll just add it to the list.   ::)

[northener]

They must pass through Houghton first Robin on there way to wombwell. ;D

[greyhound]

Loads of swifts swooping around the church tower today.  Very very early for them to be here.