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    #92
    feartuath
    Registered Users Posts: 341 ✭✭feartuath


    Swallows arrived on the 9th.
    Cuckoo yesterday evening.


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    #93
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    feartuath wrote: »
    Swallows arrived on the 9th.
    Cuckoo yesterday evening.
    Whereabouts are you?


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    #94
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,346 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Cloud cuckoo-land! :D

    (Only messing, I'm really envious!)


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    #95
    Silent Running
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    No sign of our Swallows arriving this year, so far. We normally have three or four pairs nesting by now.

    I'm well aware of the disaster that occurred in Greece this year. I hope ours are just late arriving and not victims of the northerly winds. :(


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    #96
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    Cuckoo made it to East Galway early yesterday, 16th.....


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    #97
    Bsal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭Bsal


    2 House Martins flying around my area Friday afternoon.


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    #98
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Tiercel Dave wrote: »
    Cuckoo made it to East Galway early yesterday, 16th.....

    Lucky to hear the cuckoo,last heard it in Cloughduv Co Cork 15 years ago


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    #99
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    corks finest wrote: »
    Lucky to hear the cuckoo,last heard it in Cloughduv Co Cork 15 years ago

    Still lots around here, northwest end of Lough Derg. Last year, best I heard was 5 calling simultaneously.....


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    #100
    Curiousness99
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Curiousness99


    First swallows seen in county Dublin (Dublin hills), on 6th April, earlier than last year, not so many though about compared to other years

    I’ve been ‘hearing out’ for the cuckoo but nothing yet, they seem to be scarce the last few years where I am


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    #101
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Cuckoo arrived here in the hills of south Kerry last Tuesday 13th, the house martins have a double nest built on the top of the gable over a week now.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #102
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Saw the first swallow during the week and heard the cuckoo this morning. Spring has sprung in Sligo :)


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    #103
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    First Swallow sighting today in Athlone.


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    #104
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,291 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    spotted today in north county dublin. had to drop food out for herself's horse which we only do every fortnight or so at the moment, so no idea when they arrived.


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    #105
    Goldfinch8
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Goldfinch8


    Just heard the first cuckoo of the year in central Mayo. A few willow warblers singing about the place also and a blackcap singing it's heart out on a favoured branch of a larch tree down the back of the garden. Blue skies and a real spring chorus if there ever was one.


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    #106
    feartuath
    Registered Users Posts: 341 ✭✭feartuath


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Whereabouts are you?

    Clare.


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    #107
    Silent Running
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    Swallows arrived here in Wexford yesterday. That's the latest they've arrived in many years.


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    #108
    vistafinder
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    Cuckoo started singing in this part of West Cork yesterday. A bit later than usual.

    Grasshopper Warblers too since Sunday.


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    #109
    pawrick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,721 ✭✭✭pawrick


    whyulittle wrote: »
    First Swallow sighting today in Athlone.

    Re Athlone, lots around curraghboy past few days also and spotted two around summerhill about a week ago. Mine was late arriving but finally spotted one yesterday and he's taken to sleeping in the shed, hopfully they will nest there again this year.


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    #110
    SnowyMuckish
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭SnowyMuckish


    First swallows back in the north west of Donegal today!So lovely to see them back!


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    #111
    SnowyMuckish
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭SnowyMuckish


    Re swallows, Wouldn’t it be lovely if there was some kind of ‘tracker camera’ that followed their journey to us and a live map of their arrival? Maybe it exists already but I don’t know of if?


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    #112
    SnowyMuckish
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭SnowyMuckish


    vistafinder wrote: »
    Cuckoo started singing in this part of West Cork yesterday. A bit later than usual.

    Grasshopper Warblers too since Sunday.

    Love this article fro the Irish Times.

    “Irish tradition has it that the last two weeks of April and early days of May often bring a short snap of unseasonably cold weather, and since this is the period during which the cuckoo is heard for the first time, our forefathers called such a cold snap Scairbhin na gCuach. "Scairbhin na gCuach, garbh's fuar," they used to mutter to each other: "the cuckoo spell is blustery and cold".

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/listening-for-the-cuckoo-1.143830


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    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,631 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    SnowyMuckish wrote: »
    Love this article fro the Irish Times.

    “Irish tradition has it that the last two weeks of April and early days of May often bring a short snap of unseasonably cold weather, and since this is the period during which the cuckoo is heard for the first time, our forefathers called such a cold snap Scairbhin na gCuach. "Scairbhin na gCuach, garbh's fuar," they used to mutter to each other: "the cuckoo spell is blustery and cold".

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/listening-for-the-cuckoo-1.143830

    There is definatly something in that - the only decent May bank holiday i can remember was the one the kicked off the increadible summer of 2018


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    #114
    SnowyMuckish
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭SnowyMuckish


    I just find it interesting this year because if you follow the weather forum atm they mention a colder spell coming next week. There must be something in it, Our forefathers must have had some sort of understanding years ago that still lingers today.


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    #115
    whodafunk
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭whodafunk


    Saw first Swallow on 1st Aril. Looking forward to seeing Swifts return very soon.


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    #116
    SnowyMuckish
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭SnowyMuckish


    Heard the first cuckoo this evening, brought a smile to my face.


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    #117
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    first of May today and as if if right on cue i heard my first call of the cuckoo,

    plus....the distant call of a curlew too :)


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    #118
    x567
    Registered Users Posts: 200 ✭✭x567


    Saw my first swifts of the year today; they may have been around for a few days as I haven't been down to the town for a few days


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    #119
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    They arrived in Leixlip yesterday - Summer is here now :D


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    #120
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    They arrived in Leixlip yesterday - Summer is here now :D


    Feel the same way every year and when they leave in August they take the Summer with them. They are in Enniscorthy the last couple of days and numbers seem up on last year.

    ****



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    #121
    Ulmus
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭Ulmus


    They're back! Saw first 2 swifts today over Phibsboro. I hope the good weather continues for them.


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