Swallows and house martins

There were a great many flying around and twittering this morning. I remarked to my husband that they will leave us next month. I always wish them a safe journey and hope they all return next year.

I love to hear them, too. We have nests under the eaves and the house martins are still using them. We often go outside befoe bed to look for hedgehogs or listen to the owls, and the house martins are chattering away.

Mine were only here for two days.
There’s nothing for them to eat.
Usually it’s teeming with insects around here, but not this year.
It’s shocking, really worrying.

Lots of them nesting under the swingbridge. I love to see them darting and diving.

Maybe your unusual heat over there, Fanny? They do tend to disappear here when it is very hot but they come back in the cooler weather. Having said that ,we certainly don’t have as many bees and wasps as we used to get here, either. The tree frogs are back this year , though, so it’s not all bad !