Seen Your First Swallow Yet?

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Saw a swallow/swift on Sunday.

By yesterday evening they were busily building a new nest in the eaves of a house that they favour mightily for some reason.

Probably hasn't been a lot of mud around from then until now. Been so dry...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Probably hasn't been a lot of mud around from then until now. Been so dry...

There's plenty of mud around there, the river's about 50 metres away which might account for the popularity of the nesting site.

Though why that particular house in a terrace of practically identical ones is a mystery.

I suppose it might be a memory thing since the terrace has been there for 150 years or so and the birds appear to return whence they were hatched.

And they're probably house martins.