The second event, entitled Swallows is a workshop for youngsters from eight years upwards, and is also free. This is at 3pm on Wednesday 16th April in the Library at Yzeures. A splendid opportunity for your child to get covered in clay making a swallow nest! For more information and to inscribe, contact the Mairie on 02.47.94.36.54.
In France, what we know as house martins, sand martins and swifts are all varieties of hirondelle, the swallow itself being a hirondelle rustique. Hirondelle may be better translated as "hirundine", but that's a bit of a mouthful for most eight-year-olds, although on second thoughts many are perfectly au fait with the diplodocus!.
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Hi Polly and Tim. Have been meaning to suggest a Yorkshire
blog you might enjoy: weaver of
grass.blogspot.com. Today's post
is outstanding...sure to invoke
some memories. The subtitle of
the blog, btw, is "Welcome to life
on a farm in the Yorkshire Dales"
What's going on with your owls?
Hi Sheila...
owl situation currently unknown...
last night there were three calling round us...
two males and one female.
They appeared to be flying around as they called...
and there was us thinking that we'd certainly got a pair...
I've set the Weaver of Grass site up as a tab on Firefox and will look at it later.
A quick glance says it is interesting.
Sheila...
further to that Owl Howl...
Pauline is in the hangar [Dutch barn] sowing seeds...
I went to talk to her and just as we began talking...
a large Tawny left the Kestrel box I put up last year and flew across our orchard and vanished into our most wooded area.
That was at 1:10 PM Continental time...
a lovely sight...
but for me only...
Pauline was concentrating on sowing!!
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