Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
has any one seen the above this summer.or has it been to cold for them this year.
but saying that i have seen seagulls acting strangly by chasing bugs while in flight.as a matter of fact like swollows/swifts do.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
I have seen the swifts and house martins flying around but not so many as usual, the swallows do not seem to like this bit of Dover.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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We usually have a few nesting in the walls next to our bathroom (we are too soppy to get rid of them and they come back every year...!) but there have been far fewer this year.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
Only one or two.
When we first came here, 40 years ago the martins nested every year under the eaves, for many years, but for the last 20 years not.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
At the pub we used to get a martins nest just above the back door, lovely but.......... Also the swallows in the timber cover at the throwing end of the skittle ally, a game in progress did not seem to bother them at all.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Shame about the decline of wild birds , i wonder why they dont like down here anymore ????