Just passing through.....

As I sat writing up my notes and enjoying the quiet earlier on site this week, I was pleased to see a couple of swallows alight on the overhead wires......

then there were three......

then quite a few......

and suddenly there was in excess of 60 chittering chattering swallows swooping around me as they scooped up insects to fuel the long journey ahead, all the way down to South Africa. 

Then on a sudden, they were all up and gone. 

Marvellous to be able to just be there and experience that!  (I did try videoing them, but really, it was a lot of small specks in a big sky, as you can imagine.  You really had to be there!)