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25-03-2010, 08:17 PM
|  | New Member | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Devon UK
Posts: 1
| | | First post and swallows
Hi all, first post on this forum so hello to everyone. Went to a local venue at weekend (Start point, Devon) and saw 3 swallows coming in from sea ward. Also saw a male Wheatear, great to see the summer birds arriving but sorry to see the wildfowl and waders leaving.
John |
25-03-2010, 08:25 PM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Belvedere, Kent
Posts: 10,025
| | | Re: First post and swallows
Welcome to WAB John, I hope you like it here!
I haven't spotted any of our summer visitors yet but one or two other members have seen their first swallows too so I'm sure it won't be long.
Dave P.
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25-03-2010, 08:26 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 13,603
| | | Re: First post and swallows
Welcome! Always exciting to see the new arrivals. I don't tend to get sad over the winter birds leaving- though I do enjoy them very much.
The one bird I do feel sad about leaving is when the Swift departs (I know they've yet to arrive) as I feel summer is on the way out! |
25-03-2010, 10:43 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,292
| | | Re: First post and swallows
welcome john i hope you enjoy the variety of birds and info on here, i havent seen any swallows yet but a few have on here, those by the coast will see them before the likes of some who live inland, rossy  |
03-04-2010, 01:28 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 5
| | | Re: First post and swallows
This is my first post. I have seen 3 swallows today (9:45am) sitting together on a wire in Wybunbury, South Cheshire. Last year I saw one about 6 miles north of here on 1st April and I thought they would be much later this time with all the bad weather. Maybe no one told them about it!
Has anyone else seen them this far north?
No other Summer visitors sighted or heard yet. |
20-04-2010, 06:51 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 2
| |  Re: First post and swallows
Hi, this is my message since registering.................
Over the last 5 days, i.e. from 16th April 2010, we have seen the first swallows in the area where we live, Avenue Road/Newton Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire. They have been perched on the phone wires. Hoping to hear, and maybe even see, the first cuckoos soon............... |
21-04-2010, 07:15 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 5
| | | Re: First post and swallows
Writing from S Cheshire. House martins too have arrived now, about 10 days ago. Chiffchaffs heard for about a week, still listening for cuckoos. Last year I didn't hear any at all - very sad. |
21-04-2010, 10:29 AM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 611
| | | Re: First post and swallows
There have been good numbers of Wheatear turning up on the East Coast in the last day or so and a general influx of summer migrants Off there to work for a few months starting at the end of next week and cant wait |
19-05-2010, 05:41 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 5
| | Re: First post and swallows
For the first time in 3 years a cuckoo was calling on Monday 17th May in the South Cheshire area just outside Nantwich! Anyone else heard or seen any?
Swifts seen just over a week ago skimming the roof tops. |
19-05-2010, 06:01 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Watford, Hertfordshire.
Posts: 4,859
| | | Re: First post and swallows
We heard a cuckoo last week when camping in the New Forest, near Brockenhurst.
Jim | | |
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