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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 10:02 am Post subject: No Swallows.
None turned up to their regular nesting spots at work and I haven't seen any around town at all.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4630
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 11:38 am Post subject:
Are they as far behind as everything else?

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 11:57 am Post subject:
Saw a couple in the village (a mile away) last week. They don't venture out this way, except later in the year when they sometimes feed high over our trees. Henry

lowri

Joined: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 1322
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 1:59 pm Post subject:
I've seen 2 swallows on a friend's farm, much nearer sea level, but nothing here yet, definitely late. And has anybody heard a chiffchaff - or is my deafness for real?

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 6:56 pm Post subject:
I have heard Chiff-Chaffs in the garden and in several other places, so it might just be that they haven't reached you yet. No Willow Warblers in the garden yet, though I have heard them elsewhere. On the other hand, Chiff-Chaff was one of the bird sounds that my mother 'lost' quite early. Henry

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 7:25 pm Post subject:
tis usually house martins and swifts here, a few swallows mid summerish only a few so far the bats are out the plants have done 2 months in 2 weeks all at the same time bee watch is a bit thin so far, see plants

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4630
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 8:06 pm Post subject:
Saw a good few bumble bees over thise couple of hot days, and have seen a few solitary bees since then. Cabbage whitefly are doing well...

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16002

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 6:34 am Post subject:
I agree the flowers have come on very fast. We are at bluebell time now but blackthorn is still in flower, with the odd may blossom out too. Very mixed up. The hot weather at the end of last week brought things forward a long way.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8961
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 8:15 am Post subject:
Swallows at a farm about a mile away. I'm hoping the Martins will be back as many houses have been "wrapped" here. The mud should stick well on the harling, even ifit doesn't where people have put plastic barge boards/soffits etc

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 9:15 am Post subject:
A heron flew about 10 ft above my head on Sunday, good job it didn't need a poo!

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 9:24 am Post subject:
Definitely swallows - 6 or 7 - on the phone wire in front of the house about a week ago. Haven't seen any since though.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 9:51 am Post subject:
I think I saw two Chiffchaffs on Sunday when we were out on a walk. We don't get Swallows round our way.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6614
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 10:56 am Post subject:
Just saw a photo of a japanese sweet coltsfoot (AKA butter bur) in bloom around here. (I was trying to help ID it, but had no idea what it was from the flowers alone - definintely unusual around here) Fritillaria and tulips are up a couple inches in the yard

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 12:50 pm Post subject:
butter burr leaves are a good wrapping for transporting and fire baking fish handy as they are quite common round here.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6614
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 18 1:06 pm Post subject:
These were Petasites japonicus. The only "coltsfoot" that I know of around here normally is Tussilago farfara (which still isn't a native) though there are apparently North American petasites Seems as though butterbur more aptly describe petasites than Tussilago

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