dantheman
Bah humbug
Red-rumped Swallow, very nice, they only seem to get up to our region on rainy days in April(and never at our altitude of course:-C). How far south in France are you Dan?
Double Hobby action overhead here yesterday, two together catching insects (sorry H2!).
Sorry took my time replying ...
Basically a village called Vianne 1.75 hours south of Bergerac, 2 hours north of the Pyrenees, 2 hours west to Bordeaux, 2 hours east to Toulouse ...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...0xfceda1046d5ce432!8m2!3d44.196464!4d0.320556
Think it's about 60m above sea level, rolling or flat vineyard agricultural country. About 5 miles east of 'Les Landes' big foresty area in SW France.
Parent's place is on the north edge of the village, small river valley acts as a bit of a migration route.
(My two previous RR Swallows were also late summer I believe, but before 2010.
Collins doesn't show RR Swallow in France so have presumed these were kind of northward post-breeding dispersal??)
Et tu?