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We don't seem to get these birds - swallows and house martins. I expect they require gentry type houses and are to proud to nest on an estate. But then again I wouldn't know the difference between a swallow and a swift if it bit me in the bum. Magpies. I got magpies I have. Bucket loads of 'em.
We don't seem to get these birds - swallows and house martins. I expect they require gentry type houses and are to proud to nest on an estate. But then again I wouldn't know the difference between a swallow and a swift if it bit me in the bum. Magpies. I got magpies I have. Bucket loads of 'em.
They need flies. If you haven't got any then they will not come near you.
Go out to the villages around the town and you will see what I mean. Look for the martins nests under the soffits of the houses. When you seen them you are most likely to find a pond or something similar nearby to provide them with the mud to build them as well as somewhere for the midges to grow.
Swallows and house martins look like miniature magpies with swallows having longer wings and a red patch on their throats.
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A local birdie chap reckoned large numbers been killed by the effects of the oil fires in Kuwait.? They've never come back in anything like the numbers I'm used to seeing We get swallows and other birds, but no House Martins. Sad really.
Very, very sad. We're close to the west coast on a similar latitude to your sightings so I'll be looking out for hirondelles. (Good word that, eh ).
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with swallows having longer wings and a red patch on their throats.
Very difficult to spot the difference when in flight between the two.
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