Day 56

Friday 15 May

So, we have reached another weekend after another eventful, and thoroughly draining, week.

I’m very aware how I can lose myself and feel better when watching birds just doing what they do – this evening , whilst walking, I tried to identify whether some spring arrivals swooping around above us were Swifts, Swallows or Martins?

I really wasn’t sure but knew they weren’t Swifts, as these rested by perching on telegraph wires (Swifts don’t do this) and weren’t stiff winged and didn’t glide like Swifts.

So, House Martins (Sand Martins are brown and these were definitely black and white) or Swallows?

They were flying so quickly catching Mayflies that I had to use the phone to video them, take a screen shot and zoom in…

… and there it was, frozen in the moment, the long tail feathers of a male Barn Swallow.