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Where Are All The Swallows This Year?

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corylus | 15:46 Mon 21st May 2018 | Twitching & Birdwatching
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Haven' t seen any round here so far this year in W Yorkshire.
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I've read on BirdGuides that it's the same situation all over the country. Not only with swallows, but with other migrant species as well.
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Our pair arrived about 10-12 days ago. Fife, Scotland
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WHY Melve 16?
They are all flying around my local park - Warrington.
They don't really know, corylus. It could be something to do with the beast from the east.
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That figures.
I've seen quite a few swallows - 2 thought they might nest in one of our barns. OMG, they are SO cute close up. But for security we couldnt leave the door opened - we did leave another door open for them, but they werent interested.

Lots of house martins too.
//Finally, a bit of action! In what has been one of the most peculiar springs in living memory, there was at last a good crop of rare and scarce arrivals – although our commoner migrants still seem very slow to arrive, with numbers down (and some species almost totally missing) in many areas//
This is the opening paragraph on the BirdGuides web site.
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At last they arrived here this morning swooping through the trees catching insects.

Haven't seen any here so far this year.
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Remember that late August last year they all lined up on telephone wires early where I live very early in the morning making a hell of a racket, later in the morning they had all all left presumably back to wherever they came from in S Africa.
We usually see a lot about this time of year but not seen any on the golf course yet.
I haven't seem any round me either which is most unusual. The house martins have been here for over 3 weeks though.

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