Category Archives: Bird migration

THE SAGA OF THE HOUSE MARTINS…

Posted on June 5, 2018 by fordhollow74

… continues. After many blank days – and reports around the country of the lack of swifts, swallows and martins this summer – a pair of martins were here on Friday fluttering up to eaves, checking last years nests, both the … Continue reading →

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HOUSE MARTINS, AGAIN.

Posted on May 31, 2017 by fordhollow74

I can’t let May 2017 pass by without mentioning, again, the House Martins that have flown back to Fordhollow. How many of these are from last year’s brood (or broods, we think there were two hatched from the one nest)? … Continue reading →

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MAY 5th

Posted on May 5, 2017 by fordhollow74

The fifth of May is in my memory from schooldays when the first swifts arrive back from their African migration, usually picked up first from their whistling calls, then seen in their wheeling flight arcing round the Abbey and ham … Continue reading →

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