Stackpole – South West Wales

Been back a week in South Devon.

Arrived here on Tuesday – must have taken all that time to work out how to get across the Bristol Channel (lazy sods!) 😆

Been back a week in South Devon.

Make that two weeks Monkeyboy 😉

23.3.11, Gore Lane, Orcombe, Exmouth:- 3 Golden Plover, 6 Wheatear
South Huish:- Swallow, 40 Sand Martin, 6 Wheatear, 2 White Wagtail
Thurlestone Bay:- 2 Sandwich Tern
Bolberry Down:- 4 Sand Martin, Swallow, 2 Wheatear ( m. )
Stover:- 3 Goosander ( f. ), 10 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, Mink
Torquay:- Hummingbird Hawkmoth ( rear of Imperial Hotel )

Swallows ‘n stuff in Devon

No sightings yet, probably another week.

A bit concerned that one of my customers has renovated her farm so well, that all the barns and out buildings are now lived in. She hasn’t taken into account that the swallows will be coming back there (as they have done for over 100 years), and there won’t be anywhere for them to nest.

that’s called evoloution.

Saw my first one here (Alvecote, nr Tamworth) on Tues Eve, a singleton flying east. Saw singletons yesterday and today (same bird?) and briefly heard the merry farting sound of Housemartins as well. Any day now the numbers should be increasing but last year was the quietest round here for hirundines since I moved here in early ’05. Hopefully get a few more this year, the sound of a Swallow is me favourite sound in the whole world 🙂 yeah, yeah, bloody hippy, I know….

I love to see them coming in and the Housemartins, but I’ll be shortly ****** off when the car/faeces/bird interface starts again (everywhere!)