It seems the weather decided the August Bank Holiday would
be the last hurrah of anything connected with summer.
The warm and sunny weather experience over the Bank Holiday
was certainly welcomed by many, but in the following weeks it’s been clear to
any remaining swallows, swifts, house martins or any other summer visitors that
the UK is shutting down for the season.
The local swallows had been swooping around the garden in
high numbers, but none have been sighted for at least a week.
The magpies are most definitely around, but that wasn’t the
case during a recent visit to Cornwall.
Not once in a week was a single magpie seen, there were
however plenty of herring gulls and jackdaws living alongside each other.
The gulls could be responsible for the lack of magpies,
while other smaller garden birds seemed to be away from the areas that the
gulls operated in.
The weather hasn’t quite pushed the garden birds back into
the garden on a regular basis, but in the last few days the blue tits have been
spending time every day, foraging and it’s probably not going to be long before
the blackbirds, robins, great tits, dunnocks and goldfinches.
In 2016 and 2014, September brought many days of warm
sunshine, with 2016 recording the highest temperature of the year!
Will the end of September bring an Indian summer, or will it
signal the mass return of the garden birds to feed on the fat feeders?
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