John Aston
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Swifts in North Yorkshire . May the church bells ring out
We might see more this week, warmer and SW winds for most of the week. Maybe we will get a longer summer and everything will make up for it, same with the plants.Sparrow hawks are very adept at catching doves and pigeons and usually have places where they do it regularly,every day or so checking in to see if they can ambush them...
when I was fishing yesterday I saw some decent numbers of swallows,got a feeling most of these were in transit,house martins too....
Arrived here in Staffordshire this afternoon. I thought they may come courtesy of the warm southerly airstream. It's nice to sit outside on warm, cloudy, summer evenings as they wheel over the gardens picking off flies from over the vegetation and crops. Then suddenly, about the third week in August, you notice they're not there any more and are gone for another year.