Re: Swallows still here...


"Malcolm" <Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> >>After being told all day it was coming, the heavens opened this evening
just
> >>after 6pm with a belter of a deluge. At least we'd got back home and dry
> >>with the weekly shop from Sainsbury's before it started. Didn't last
very
> >>long though and the rain had stopped after little more than 15 minutes.
> >>
> >>
> >After saying in my last posting that I'd seen the last swallows and
> >house martins, they turned up yesterday and again today, just to prove
> >me wrong. Over the last few days we've had some of the heaviest
> >showers I think I've ever seen and some very windy squalls. I wonder
> >if I'll see the swallows/house martins again in the morning?
> >
> It is normal for swallows and house martins to stay in Scotland well
> into October, and not unusual for a few Swallows to be still around in
> early November. Our latest dates in the last ten years are 21st October
> for House Martin and 8th November for Swallow. We're only 30-40 miles
> from Arran, so keep looking!
>
> --
> Malcolm

Loads of House Martins and some Swallows still here in the Scottish Borders
(Fri 30th Sept) The bulk of Swallows have now left, we had five nests in our
garage this year producing 7 broods (26 young in total) The house martins
having a bit of a disaster with 3 nests coming down in a wet easterly
(keeping the post on topic) with only one nest producing two broods


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