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28 Jul 2024 15:05 #8749 by Jim Wright
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Similar scenes over North Sea Lane, Humberston, this morning - but, alas, not a swift or hirundine (or bee eater) in sight
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26 Jul 2024 07:52 #8737 by Pete Locking
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No Bee-Eaters Jim, but I'm reading Birds of the Humber District by John Cordeaux at the moment printed in 1872, and in it he mentions Black-Headed Gulls eating flying ants, so it has been going on for a while!

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24 Jul 2024 22:16 #8729 by Jim Wright
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Any bee-eaters? Do they eat flying ants?
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24 Jul 2024 17:53 #8725 by Pete Locking
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Another mass hatching of flying ants bringing a big flock of Common Gull, B-H Gull and smaller numbers of Swallow, House Martin and Starling over North Somercotes.

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18 Jul 2024 19:25 #8716 by Pete Locking
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Ants continue to hatch, now got 60 -70 Black-Headed Gulls over our house feeding.

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18 Jul 2024 14:58 #8713 by Pete Locking
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We had a big hatching of flying ants today and with it a few aerial feeders.

10 Swifts, the most we've had over Somercotes all summer
 2 Swallows
 2 House Martins

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