Tuesday, October 09, 2007

The Swallows Are Gone

The swallows are gone. So are the housemartins. I didn't notice exactly when it happened, but I was standing at the end of the garden yesterday, looking over the field behind the house, when it occurred to me I hadn't seen any for a while.

They'll be back next summer. In the meantime I shall look out for the winter visitors, the ducks, geese, swans and redwings, and huge noisy flocks of starlings. But it is a significant moment. The swallows are gone. Summer is gone, as much as we had a summer this year. Winter is on its way. I wonder what it will bring.

6 comments:

RUTH said...

The dragonflies are gone now too and far fewer butterflies and bees. The weeds still manage to grow though! Re my fuchsias..yes I am inclined to deadhead them as the flowers fade...but then I've only a small garden and not too many to do :o)

Melanie Rimmer said...

I saw a dragonfly yesterday but it may be my last one of 2007. I only pick fuschia heads to pull off all but two of the "legs" and make fairy ballerinas for my 7-year-old daughter.

Gordon Mason said...

My swallows never arrived. We used to get loads around our previous house and they were a real "feel of summer". But we moved house last year and never saw any this summer. And the new house has lots of woodland very nearby (like at the bottom of the garden). Any suggestions cos I do miss them?

stitchwort said...

This year there were very few house martins, and none nested on our house, as they did last year.
Still a butterfly or two, and wasps.

Lesley said...

More midges than I ever remember... and loads of bluebottles!(I have my suspicions about their last port of call, but can't say for fear of being sued) ugh ! ... horrible things!

Plenty of bees still around here in South Wales... 'ordinary' ones and still a few big bumblejobs too

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