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Title: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: AlaninCarlisle on May 01, 2020, 15:49
They're usually well established in our old stables by now. Haven't seen a single one anywhere yet. Anyone else?
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: mumofstig on May 01, 2020, 16:31
Could they be late because we've had a week or more of winds from the North, which won't have helped their migration.
Plus this happened in April...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/10/high-winds-kill-thousands-of-migrating-birds-in-disaster-over-greece
 :(
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: jaydig3 on May 01, 2020, 18:07
We don't get swallows, but the swifts haven't arrived here yet.
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: Christine on May 02, 2020, 07:13
I checked the hearing yesterday and realised that the local swifts are not here.
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: Aidy on May 03, 2020, 20:03
Thought about you today Alan, A chap was walking his dog near Stanly Park here in Blackpool and said all of a sudden the place was full of swallows.
Looks like they a tad late coming in.
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: grinling on May 03, 2020, 23:11
lots of swifts here,diving over the field which has yet to be ploughed
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: AlaninCarlisle on May 15, 2020, 19:32
Well the swallows finally returned on Wednesday 13/5. Never known them so late
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: jezza on May 15, 2020, 19:43
Hello I've seen 5 above my house but where I work there hasn't been one usually usually there between 19th and 25th of April they nest in the barn,have seen Sand Martin's near my local river bridge   jezza
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: polo71 on May 15, 2020, 20:03
Loads of swifts swooping above the oil seed rape in the fields behind our house, They may even be swallows but they move too fast for my old eyes ! The starlings nesting in the boxing under the eves have had chicks in there for a good 2 / 3 weeks now noisy little so so's the adult hit a bullseye yesterday right on my head when I was watering the plants !   
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: jaydig on May 16, 2020, 08:33
Still waiting for our swifts to put in an appearance.
Title: Re: Have the swallows got Covid 19?
Post by: wighty on May 16, 2020, 13:52
The swifts are on the Island at the moment so they are on the way to you. :D