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woodypecks

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SWALLOWS
« on: April 19, 2013, 07:47:13 »
Swallows have arrived  !    :blob7:     (Mullion Cornwall )  Anyone heard the Cuckoo yet ?
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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2013, 09:04:36 »
Hi Woodypecks,If you look on the site of Wildlife, at DidI hear right ,its about the Cuckoo  :toothy10:

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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 13:44:23 »
Noticed that the ones that come to my Mum's house every year have not showed up yet  . they are usually there by mid April and numbers generally down here. (Northern Ireland)

Anyone else noticing the lack of Swallows ?

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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2013, 17:49:24 »
None here yet (Torbay) - they know it's too darn cold!

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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2013, 18:06:09 »
Swallows and House Martins have been here for a couple-few weeks, South West Wales. Cuckoo around the same time too.

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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2013, 22:57:14 »
Correction! At 8pm this evening I was in the garden and three swallows (or swifts?) swooped by with their shrill cries. They were too high to identify precisely. Lovely to hear them after the long, miserable winter.

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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2013, 06:10:24 »
Glad they have arrived :icon_cheers: I love to hear their chatter too
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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2013, 07:24:18 »
Correction! At 8pm this evening I was in the garden and three swallows (or swifts?) swooped by with their shrill cries. They were too high to identify precisely. Lovely to hear them after the long, miserable winter.

Tricia

Great stuff.....If they were making shrill cries they are Swifts
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Re: SWALLOWS
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2013, 20:38:51 »
I went walkies yesterday and saw my first martins of the year. Think they were sand martins  by the estuary [Humber]. Yes the cuckoo arrived a fortnight ago and can quickly do one's head-in :BangHead:

 

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