Every year I keep an eye out for Swallows darting around in the sky around our house (we live towards the north of Plymouth, on the edge of Dartmoor, and there are always loads of Swallows around us), as it makes me feel like Spring has properly begun. 😉
As we now end the 2nd week in April, I still haven’t seen any, which is quite late according to my records since I first started this birding blog. However, in 2011, I didn’t see my first Swallows until April 18th, so they have a day to go before it is the latest I have seen them arrive!
For the past week, I have been cycling to and from work, and have purposely been coming home a route that takes me past some large open fields with great views of Dartmoor, in the hope that I will see some Swallows. Today I didn’t cycle, so I won’t be going home that route, so I hope I don’t miss seeing them, though as I have said before, they can’t be missed around our house anyway. It would be just typical though! 😉
If anyone reads this blog and lives in North Devon, I would be very interested to know when you first see Swallows this year. Please add a comment to this post or tweet me @strethewey.