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Monthly archives for October, 2010

Autumn movements

Autumn movements

The absence of swallows isn’t the only sign that summer is now a distant memory. The weather might have been warm and dry for the last few days, but this can’t disguise the beginnings of colour in the leaves and a couple of mild frosts give us no chance of doubting the coming change of […]

No swallows probably makes an autumn

No swallows probably makes an autumn

Through September I was watching out for swallows, Hirundo rustica, passing through, on their way south. Most seem to be going north but I suppose that must be my imagination. The summer brought lots of swifts, Apus apus, as usual, but we seemed to be poorly supplied with swallows and House martins, Delichon urbicum, something that is a bit worrying […]