Country Diary
Oct 06, 2021
3 minutes
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The swallows vanished one night in mid-September and I never saw them again. I was cycling to the pub with a friend at the time and we had to stop on the lane to watch them go in a plume that stretched for almost half a mile across the glen.
Who could say how many birds there were, but it must have been hundreds flying at height to the south. I had never seen such a massive movement
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