I wanna me a swallow...

[gbb]

They're bloody nuts
Sitting in the garden, there's a small group of 5 or 6 swallows wheeling and darting about just above the houses, chasing each other i think, with a non stop excited screaming coming from them all. Its like a playful dogfight

Watched them for ages...stupid smile all over my face

 

[longers]

They are excellent little fliers, used to watch them for ages in a field near an old house and then a bit further up the road swooping to drink from a reservoir.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I think they're like a feathered Maverick and Goose - Top Gun birdy stylee.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I have flocks of seagulls squawking at me all the time.

 

[snakehips]

'excited screaming' ..... ?

Are you sure they are not Swifts ?

Anyway , you are lucky , we have just been invaded by the Ring Necked Parakeets !
It was only a matter of time

Snake

 

[yenrod]

Swifts are interesting birds too - of the same family as Swallows, House Martins and said Swifts.

Swifts often are around come a thunder storm.

Swallows are interesting mainly thru' the colours, of them. House Martins navy & Blue Swift's charcoal colour - after leaving the nest a Swift does everything on the wing (flying) EVERYTHING - if you see a swift land then your are pretty lucky !

 

[Fnaar]

Swifts are interesting birds too - of the same family as Swallows, House Martins and said Swifts.

Being an avian pedant, I have to point out that though swifts look superficially like housemartins and swallows, they are actually an example of coalescent evolution... evolving through a different line, but looking similar...

 

[mr Mag00]

screaming? they be swifts (i like fnarr)

melodic chirping = swallow

 

[yenrod]

Being an avian pedant, I have to point out that thought swifts look superficially like housemartins and swallows, they are actually an example of coalescent evolution... evolving through a different line, but looking similar...

SWIFT

HOUSE MARTIN

Swifts are usually faster & fly higher too !