24th September, 1999
On the first day
of the new term, I came across a wet and bedraggled
feather on the edge of the cricket field. I put it in my
pocket thinking, because of the brown and white markings,
that it belonged to an owl. However, later in the day,
when it had dried out, I found that the leading edge of
the feather was a A week ago, groups of house martins and swallows could be seen circling excitedly prior to starting their migration. Numbers have now declined dramatically and there is just the occasional swallow or martin to be seen. Several swallows seen on the 21st were behaving quite differently to those seen a week ago. They were flying in a purposeful way, heading parallel to the Went, and looked as they were simply passing through the area. |