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22-08-2008, 10:47 PM
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| | | Swallows getting ready to leave ....
I noticed a few on the telephone wires here today - summer didn't last long did it  |
22-08-2008, 11:10 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
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Originally Posted by Cheryl  I noticed a few on the telephone wires here today - summer didn't last long did it | No one will reply to this, we are all crying into our beer, tea, coffee, wine, beards and so on. |
22-08-2008, 11:37 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
Summer? What summer? *Sobs* (Takes another swig of the red wine she bought in sunny south of France just two weeks back....)
Clever swallows, legging it early.....or winging it as the case may be....
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23-08-2008, 12:31 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
Yes I noticed loads of Swallows and Martins gathering on wires as we went shopping this morning.
Also yesterday I noticed my first large Starling flock.......another sign of autumn. |
23-08-2008, 01:37 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
It was so quiet at the NWT Upton Broad site yesterday. They’ve probably talked all the other birds into going back with them! 
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23-08-2008, 01:46 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
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Originally Posted by Ruth Daniel Yes I noticed loads of Swallows and Martins gathering on wires as we went shopping this morning.
Also yesterday I noticed my first large Starling flock.......another sign of autumn. | Saw my first large Starling flock yesterday! Feeding on an embankment alongside a large shopping centre! |
23-08-2008, 06:52 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
Quite a few Swallows purposely moving west at Rainham today, while the House + Sand Martins were more leisurely feeding.
Other signs of migration there were a couple of Spotted Flycatchers, a juvenile Cuckoo which landed on the river wall, a Tree Pipit, some Yellow Wagtails + a couple of Whinchats. |
23-08-2008, 07:00 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
Saw the first ones heading north yesterday, Prawle Point, S. Devon.
Yes, I meant north. Every year they come hear at the end of summer. I assume it is those from the far north which fly down the channel and then head for the southernmost coast for a quick break before the next leg of their journey. |
23-08-2008, 07:36 PM
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| | | Re: Swallows getting ready to leave ....
They have been gathering on the wires round me for this past week. twittering away which I always take as a sign of them getting ready to move off.
The summer or rather lack of it I'm surprised they have stopped as long as they have 
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