Swallows now signify a New Year?
The famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was also Europe’s first ornithologist. His observation that ‘one swallow does not make spring’ was made about those birds returning early from their winter haunts.
I wonder what comment he would have made about the swallow seen catching insects above the seaweed at Harlyn Bay near Padstow in North Cornwall on December 27th 2007. Similar sightings were made earlier that month in Cheshire, Glamorgan, Lancashire and Norfolk.
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