Swallows and Snipe

last week I enjoyed the spectacle of around 400 plus swallows enjoying the flying ants over gardens and fields in Camrose. The birds were crowded onto the power lines making the sag visibly and were swooping over fields as well as feeding on house roofs and landing on our flat-roofed kitchen and pecking among the moss, presumably for ants or flies.

Last Sunday I saw my first snipe of the autumn on Plumstone Mountain.