April 2023
11.04.2023 : Parkside , Cleator Moor, Cumbria. Very wet and windy and gettingt towards dusk but lots of Swallows !
11.04.2023 : The end of a day out and about looking for birds and then in howling gale and rain storm the Swallows appeared. They only arrived back two days ago, about ten days after the Sand and House Martins and the weather has been so wet I’ve not managed to get any photos until today.
I wouldn’t have gone out in this weather normaly but about a month ago when the pond was high I pushed a wind fallen branch from one of our trees into the edge of the water , in the hope that the Kigfisher that visits when the river is high might use it as a perch, well today it was used by not by a Kingfisher.
Looking out from the kitchen I could see a dozen or so Swallows swooping over the pond and then one landed on the old branch, within a few minutes there was nine. They came and went, hunting over the pond then resting in the rain on the branch, so i grabbed my camera and went out in the rain for 10 mins to get some shots.
