Swifts

This is a view looking across the playing fields to the northern end of Golspie where many of the houses are Council owned or were bought from the Council. They cluster round a small supermarket, a Spar, which kindly keeps a daily newspaper for us. In walking across to collect it this morning we noticed that the air was full of....

....swifts, a dozen or more, shrieking in excitement as they zoomed around below cloudy skies.

Only a fortnight ago I wrote a blog entry about the possible loss of our swift population yet the next day we saw about four above the promenade and now we've seen many more above the village. All of which goes to prove, I suppose, that my feelings of doom and gloom over the state of our wildlife may sometimes be a bit premature.

After collecting the paper we walked up the road towards Golspie Tower where a big house which has two perfectly-designed gable ends is once again hosting a small flock of house martins. I really am sure that there are fewer of this species as they used to nest in our gable end but didn't last summer and have given it a miss again this year.