There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks. |
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Long wings, forked tails and swooping graceful flight usually identify swallows. |
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A glossy ibis waded between the bulrushes and black swallows dipped in and out of the water. |
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Before fall migration, swallows gorge themselves on insects and bayberries. |
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The roses bloomed, swallows skimmed low and the breeze swished the treetops. |
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Robins, song sparrows, vesper sparrows, and swallows are not absent, except as breeding birds. |
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Song birds tweeted in the tall trees above our heads, and swallows glided on the air, breezing above our heads. |
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When eating solid food, patients may have difficulty chewing and initiating swallows. |
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Parent tree swallows deliver food to nestlings in a bolus, making it difficult to determine either the quantity or quality of food. |
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House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it. |
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Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers need them. |
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I also have to get CT scans and immediately think of the big machine that swallows you up whole, causing big-time claustrophobia. |
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Cliff swallows are highly colonial passerines that breed throughout most of western North America. |
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As a means of escape from his convalescence he began learning about birds and watched swallows and swifts returning from Africa. |
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Birds make territorial calls, swifts and swallows fly by, and then, bats emerge. |
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It occurs when a person eats or swallows something that has been infected with the entamoeba histolytica parasite. |
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Some species, like swallows and house martins, are in decline and this exercise will help assess the state of their insect food source. |
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In dry conditions when wet mud is difficult to obtain swallows will take over old nests of other birds including house martins and blackbirds. |
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Montezuma offers a much greater diversity of birds, including various swallows, sparrows, and songbirds not mentioned here. |
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We also saw collared doves, wood pigeons, barn swallows and a red-wattled plover. |
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A cuckoo called, and swallows swooped low in east winds sucked dry by the hot land. |
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However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers. |
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But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales. |
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We might even be able to give the crows, ravens and swallows a little competition. |
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The marshes are excellent areas to see red-winged blackbirds, swallows, Virginia rails, and yellow-headed blackbirds. |
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Elea felt the flood of tears renewed as she took two more shaky swallows of her drink. |
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Pressing now on the hilts, he swallows the four blades at a gulp and then he takes them out leisurely, one by one. |
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Her throat constricts, and she swallows painfully, trying to keep her voice steady. |
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However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. |
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I just realized that our wood duck box had hooded mergansers in it and our bluebird boxes are full of swallows. |
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In another, the sufferer drinks several swallows of water while an accomplice presses on both ear flaps. |
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As he lowered the canteen from his mouth, I took it back and drank a few swallows myself. |
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A kingfisher added colour, swallows dipped and wheeled, and the second cast of a March Brown produced a lovely threequarter-pound trout. |
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I lifted his head and held the broth to his lips, and he again drank a few swallows of it. |
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Here the great void over the altar swamps and swallows the tiny little Christ. |
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Though her first instinct is to run and hide, Beth swallows her fear and opens the door. |
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He bravely helps his master and swallows his utter hatred of Smeagol long enough for them to use the creature as a guide. |
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To further obfuscate matters, he hiccups, barks, yaps, and swallows his rhymes. |
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It happens when a horse swallows his food too quickly and it forms a plug in the esophagus. |
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Also seen along the way into town were red-legged seriema, crested tyrant, rufous horneros, white-rumped swallows and blue and white swallows. |
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Why Pagels happily swallows this camel while straining out the gnats of the creed is a mystery. |
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In the past week, sand martins, swallows, chiffchaffs, wheaters and ringed plovers have all been seen there. |
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We have been investigating the consequences of flying with elongated tails in swallows, pheasants, magpies, sunbirds and sugarbirds. |
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A heavy overcast sky presses down relentlessly as the passing traffic swallows up the remaining air. |
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For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves. |
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Primroses, cowslips and swallows are everywhere and the softening in the weather is a sure sign that brighter and warmer days are near. |
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Yesterday in our morning walk we turned a sharp bend in the road and walked into a cloud of fledgling barn swallows and their proud parents. |
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The rear footwell swallows the thin third seat when folded, and places the seatback flush with the load floor. |
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Between the folds of the bottom towel in the linen closet, he retrieved a silver flask and took several greedy swallows. |
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You may also find cuckoos, kingbirds, flycatchers, swifts, swallows, orioles, and tanagers in the fall. |
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Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water. |
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Plumage coloration, not length or symmetry of tail-streamers, is a sexually selected trait in North American barn swallows. |
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He also describes cold shivering, increased muscle tension, and a delicious taste, and he swallows repeatedly. |
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A calabash cut in half lengthways and attached in a corner of a likely nesting place could also attract swallows. |
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The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn. |
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The balloonfish swallows air, when attacked by avian predators, or water, when attacked by piscine predators. |
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The carving abounded in motifs from nature including swallows, hydrangeas, azaleas, geraniums, lilies, palmyras, and balloon vines. |
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It is the emptiness, the void that swallows me for a moment, and I realize I am working, and far from my love. |
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It took three swallows for her tongue and throat to start working again. |
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Summertime Tips Tricks The average person swallows close to 2,000 calories at a summer barbeque. |
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Anyway, Mary tells me that the Cuckoo has been warbling outside her door in Ardrahan for some time now and the swallows have come back to old Kinvara. |
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It takes several swallows of his dry throat for them go down. |
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And it starts pecking and the mother then regurgitates half digested food into the gaping mouth of the chick, the chick swallows it and it's happy. |
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I perceive a flock of snow-birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest, and flitting from drift to drift, as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer. |
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His voice is now shriller, the sobbing more pathetic, and the words begin to garble as he swallows water. |
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She is groundbreaking on the problem of methane leaks in natural-gas fracking, an exception that swallows the rule. |
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I have seen swallows do this and I marvel at their audacity. |
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The four carved tiles directly below the hood depict pairs of magpies, phoenixes, mandarin ducks, and swallows, all symbols of harmonious matrimonial union. |
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The study site at Badajoz consists of open farmland with pastures, cereals, and fruit plantations, and most barn swallows breed in barns and other farm buildings. |
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If you haven't attracted bluebirds or tree swallows by late spring, close your box up or take it down, but do not let English sparrows, vicious predators, take over any box. |
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Some of those species include bluebirds, robins, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, wrens, tree and barn swallows, purple martins, owls, flycatchers, and woodpeckers. |
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Particularly in the Third, he and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are let down by the boxy recording, which swallows orchestral detail and produces unmusical balances. |
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The speaker wakes up to find swallows etching his walls with shadow, and captures a big thing or two about solitariness, if that's not too juicy a word for loneliness. |
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For eight centuries they have been the heralds of spring, as sure a sign of impending blue skies and falling blossom as the song of swallows and the appearance of tulips. |
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He swallows as if choking back some kind of retort, then forces a laugh. |
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In special circumstances, the older method of oral cholecystography is used where one swallows 6 tablets of x-ray contrast material the night before an upper abdominal x-ray. |
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Their glasses clinked lightly, and then they both drank several swallows. |
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Sparrows, swallows, and songbirds tell the story of a place. |
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So if you do have swallows nesting, keep an eye open for chats and swifts. |
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Layang-Layang island, or Swallows Island, is populated by hundreds of thousands of migratory birds, mainly various species of swallows and swifts. |
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Barn swallows are small insectivorous passerines that feed on the wing. |
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Dmitri poured another cup of coffee and drank it down in two swallows. |
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He takes a cup of water and swallows the handful of pills in one gulp. |
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When a frog swallows a fly, it also ingurgitates an army of microbes, which have to be eliminated or, at least, whose growth rate has to be checked. |
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With plenty of poke, fluid handling and more interior space than an airport terminal, the Mondeo swallows my two sprogs and all their concomitant mess with ease. |
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A man often puts a piece of food on his fork, puts it in his mouth, swallows it, often too quickly to properly taste it, stops eating when he no longer feels hungry. |
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Other swallows include barn swallows, cliff swallows, and purple martins. |
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We enjoyed relaxing on a bench in the grounds in the afternoon, watching the swallows dipping down from the eaves and flying low over the immaculate lawn. |
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A beautiful two pound rainbow spent the next couple of minutes trying its hardest to imitate one of the swallows that were gracefully taking duns from the surface. |
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He feels very self-conscious and swallows dryly, clearing his throat. |
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Bank swallows are skimming above the stream, snatching insects, curvetting, rocketing up against the dying light. |
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In delivering the responsibilities, companies get lost in well-meant initiatives, which swallows the resources and gives little in return. |
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The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time. |
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Among the wildlife species found there are butterflies, dragonflies, kestrels, swallows and house martins. |
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As they do they're encountering barn swallows, and the meeker barnies are suffering. |
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The swallows circled around and I watched them and the night-hawks flying above the roofs and drank the Cinzano. |
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Towards the end of the month, swallows and house martens congregate, and are often seen resting on the ridges or sloping roofs of buildings. |
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Among Darwin frogs, it is the male who swallows and stores the developing tadpoles in his vocal sac until juvenile frogs emerge. |
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After the initial, gag-inducing swallows, I waited for the purge. |
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Bread transubstantiates itself and becomes God himself, which then one swallows. |
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He needs chemotherapy drugs put through a chest tube and he swallows five syringes of medicine nightly too. |
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In a procedure called capsule endoscopy, the patient swallows the minicam, which then takes pictures inside the small intestine. |
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Very soon, swallows, house martins and swifts will be arriving in time to feed up after their long voyage. |
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These box designs are proven to attract bluebirds and other native species, such as tree swallows and house wrens. |
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Every year, tree swallows and house wrens take over almost two-thirds of the 400 bluebird houses in Fort Lewis, Washington. |
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A wide variety of animals live in the cave in addition to bats, including swallows, spiders, and the solenodon, a small hedgehog-like animal. |
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This belief persisted as late as 1878, when Elliott Coues listed the titles of no less than 182 papers dealing with the hibernation of swallows. |
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Smith said other species identified included a green heron, barn swallows, tree swallows, chimney swifts, and several warblers. |
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He works with Hedrick on a separate project involving barn swallows in Oregon. |
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And the African clawfooted frog swallows almost anything in front of it, even other frogs. |
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The six-acre area was fenced off primarily to protect bank swallows that return from South America each March to nest in the sand cliffs below. |
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Like all swallows, bank swallows are agile songbirds that specialize in catching insects in midair. |
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Autumn recorders have been noting leaf colour, leaf fall, the departure of swifts and swallows and the arrival of fieldfares and redwings. |
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There have been reports of late swallows, reports of late swifts, late northern wheatears. |
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They have also found that barn swallows living in areas surrounding Chernobyl have genetic damage that appears to be increasing with subsequent generations. |
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Violet-green swallows have made up the vast majority of the dying birds, followed by barn swallows and vaux swifts, according to Colin Gillin, a state wildlife veterinarian. |
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Summer swallows swift to scatter, Fish wives fingers covered in batter, Blah blah blah twitter tweet chatter, What's the matter with matterless natter. |
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So they have learned a bookful of information about the private lives of cliff swallows through the stages of mating, nest building, egg laying, and bringing up nestlings. |
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The swallows that inhabit the falls to this day vainly search for her. |
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Tiny barn swallows struggle across the sands to find a life-saving oasis. |
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The Black Sea swallows up the Eastern Black Sea highway frequently. |
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Still Wehtje said they spotted five species of swallows in an area that usually doesn't have any, as well as golden eagles and a vermilion flycatcher. |
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Say au revoir to winter thrushes, redwing and fieldfare as they begin their journey to distant breeding grounds, but get ready to welcome back swallows and starlings. |
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In the summer, Culzean is visited by many bird species including wood warblers, willow warblers and chiff chaffs as well as swallows, martins and swifts. |
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Aristotle however suggested that swallows and other birds hibernated. |
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Having no teeth, it swallows food whole in a series of gulps. |
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You can take in nature reserves and look out for swallows and ospreys on their migration route to Scotland or gaze at migrant wheatears along the foreshore of Ocean Edge. |
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Bewick then describes an experiment which succeeded in keeping swallows alive in Britain for several years, where they remained warm and dry through the winters. |
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They will also did as pot of bird watching, looking for spring arrivals like swallows, sand martins, blackcaps, chiffchaffs, willow warblers and wheatears. |
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More swallows and sand martins have been spotted locally this week, with a few house martins among them, and the first swift over Anglesey's Llyn Llywenan on Monday. |
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