4th
May 2018 (Friday)
..... 08.00 Warmer today? It didn’t feel warmer
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| The first of the scarecrow hunters outside Harbour House. |
when I was out on
the bike. I could see the sun shining
over at Edinburgh, so it’s probably warmer over there,..... and along the ‘Sooth side’. Here , in the East Neuk, we have a heavily
overcast sky, with a brisk, and cool, South Westerly breeze. The temperature should rise later, and the
sun might break through, though it disnae look like that will happen soon. I need a hot mug o’ coffee.
20.30 The villages are filling up for the May
Day holiday weekend; and the weather
forecast is ‘good’. I’ve been out on
the bike twice; it was warmer on the
hands the second time. That was when I
went up for coffee at Harbour House.
At that time scarecrows were beginning to appear at various locations
around the villages. They are all in place now; though we may get a few ‘late
arrivals’ tomorrow morning. I’ve taken
a few photos but I’ll do a circuit of the villages tomorrow, on the bike, and
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| Sandwich Terns on the Cockstail Rocks. |
try to get photos of them all.
Later
in the afternoon I went to the beach, and I’m happy to say that the Terns,
Swallows and House Martins are back with us for the summer season. I know that “one Swallow doth not a summer
make”... but this afternoon we had dozens of them feeding along above
beach. Perhaps we will get a decent
summer this year. The Swifts should be
here in a couple weeks; they are the
with us for only the summer period.... arriving in May and leaving in August.
We
had a small flock of Sandwich Terns in the bay this afternoon, on passage to
their
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| Scarecrow with a view. |
breeding ground further north. They breed in colonies over the summer and
migrate as far south as South Africa for the winter. Sandwich Terns, (they get their name from
Sandwich in Kent where they were first identified), are on the amber list of
birds in need of protection. They no
longer breed at Sandwich.
The
weather forecast is ‘good’ for tomorrow, so I’ll get ‘out and about early. The villages will be busy with scarecrow
hunters over the holiday weekend. I’ll
just bumble around on my bike.
