First Swallows

[JV44]

saw them today where we are working any one else noticed any?

[chesters1]

Heard a cuckoo for the first time this year last week ,not seen swallows but surprisingly we heard sparrows in the garden next door generally they they stay up the far end of the street with the starlings

[JV44]

Chesters not heard a Cuckoo yet here but hopefully wont be long ,with the Swallows back I need to check out a local bit of the Thames to see if the Hobbies are back gotta love the Hobby stunning and makes everything bar Gosh and Peregrine seem pedestrian

[ayjay]

I saw my first two Swallows of the year today, the first ones seen elswhere in Hampshire this year were on the 31st March.

 

Cuckoos have been arriving every day since the 9th April - about 6 days later than the average first arrival.

[Puzzled]

Still waiting for the first cuckoo in south Hertfordshire, 'twas about this time last year that I heard the first one that I had heard in many years, so eagerly anticipated.

 

The Red Kites are around in big numbers, loads of woodpeckers active (audibly) and even seen a couple.

 

Tawny Owls have been pretty noisy of late as well, love to hear them late at night "at it" as it were. That's until it rains and they go very quiet; apparently it's then "too wet to woo".

[chesters1]

The tawnies hoot in the daytime here ,generally they go thin and hide incase the magpies spot them

Edited April 15, 2015 by chesters1

[Tony U]

I've seen loads of Swallows, Red Rumped Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins, Crag Martins, Alpine Swift, Pallid and Common Swift; then again I have been in Andalucia for the last two weeks..

 

Tony

[chesters1]

I've seen loads of Swallows, Red Rumped Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins, Crag Martins, Alpine Swift, Pallid and Common Swift; then again I have been in Andalucia for the last two weeks..

 

Tony

Thats near folkestone isnt it?

[Tony U]

Thats near folkestone isnt it?

Yes just across the water

[chesters1]

Thought so ,most things are