O Changing Swallow..
"The young Hirundines begin to congregate on the tower. How punctual are these birds in all their proceedings!"
I took a walk along the Thames earlier in the week: many martins were nesting under the balconies and eaves of riverside flats, but I didn't spot any swallows. Listener Richard Kirby (also known as the , but more on that later) also noticed that the swallows seemed to be late for their annual appointment with the UK:
Where have all the swallows gone ? Last year there seemed fewer and this year there seem less again, at least to me living in S. Devon. But perhaps I am wrong.
Not wrong Richard. than in the previous two years as they explain below:
Have you seen a swallow this year? Or are your summer visitors delayed? Let us know.
The blog post title is, for those that care about such things, from which by an odd coincidence I first read in a collection of English verse lurking in the discount bin of a Danish bookshop, in a small town crowded with nesting swallows
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