View From The Top Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Usually we'd have dozens around where I live with Martins nesting under neighbouring house eves. We'd sit out in the garden of an evening and watch them, my kids thought them great. This year nothing and friends elsewhere are saying the same. Is it the same everywhere?
Turkish Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 My next door neighbour has a Swift next in her guttering.
djharvey Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Plenty of the them about! Actually had to handover one of my project's with a small area of works incomplete as martins were nesting, they kept dive bombing the workforce if they got too close. Will complete the works when they have gone, no big prob. Fantastic to watch them though!
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Usually we'd have dozens around where I live with Martins nesting under neighbouring house eves. We'd sit out in the garden of an evening and watch them, my kids thought them great. This year nothing and friends elsewhere are saying the same. Is it the same everywhere? Our numbers are sadly well down this year. I am surprised there has been no publicity about it. Their arrival was quite staggered this year so whether that means they had a bad trip over.
OldNick Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 I saw a documentary once where it showed Africans setting net traps to catch them as they were on the migration path back to the UK. We had a lot turn up at our new abode, luckily i managed to knock their nests off the wall and bbq them.........only kidding. We have had loads here
rpb Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Some swifts over Shirley but I fewer than in past years, I think. There were plenty in Dubais in April.
Made in Southampton Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 House martins have nested on my house this year. True story.
TopGun Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Usually we'd have dozens around where I live with Martins nesting under neighbouring house eves. We'd sit out in the garden of an evening and watch them, my kids thought them great. This year nothing and friends elsewhere are saying the same. Is it the same everywhere? I blame it on the magpies which seem to be everywhere now!
rpb Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 I blame it on the magpies which seem to be everywhere now! You've got magpies!
TopGun Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 You've got magpies! They're all over the place. I have a sneaking admiration for the strutty buggers though. But they obviously raid other nests for the eggs.
dune Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 They're all over the place. I have a sneaking admiration for the strutty buggers though. But they obviously raid other nests for the eggs. Get a Larsen trap.
rooney Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 One family of swallows on second brood in my workshop. 2 pairs of House Martins started renovating old nests under the eaves 3 weeks ago but have disappeared. Same happened last year .Never seen Swifts in this part of West Dorset. Friends say the sparrow hawks are after them.
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Get a Larsen trap. But you need to get a magpie from another area for best results.
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 They say one Swallow doesn't make a summer, but it certainly makes your day. Sorry, coat on, door open...
markyboy Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Just been down to the Dordogne for a couple of weeks and there were loads of swallows down there.
hamster Posted 2 July, 2011 Posted 2 July, 2011 Bird frenzy on the HO today, nearly crashed wathing them dart about in pairs. Wish I knew my birds better, fascinating creatures.
Saint-scooby Posted 3 July, 2011 Posted 3 July, 2011 I have empied two nesting boxes I put up earlier in the year, both had dead chicks in, they were blue t!ts, have a feeling it was the warm weather that ended them. Dont get swifts Martins or Swallows up here, the soil is too sandy, but now have several Nightjars singing all night long
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