Comment posted Nigel Price, Property Manager at Crarae Gardens in the van on the war on midges by newsroom.
This explains a puzzle. Noticed that the swallows were very late arriving this year (blown off course) and fewer than usual (losses in Africa). Thank you.
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- Can’t answer for the African disaster but, personally, finally learned the difference between Swallows and House Martins a few years ago (tails).
Our swallows seemed to arrive around 6 weeks later than usual this time.
Lynda
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In Castleton, outside Lochgilphead, there has been a mysterious absence of midges for weeks now, and likewise at Cairnbaan, apparently – so the question is why none this year in some places that are usually just as afflicted as elsewhere?
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Comparing last year with this is ridiculous. Last year we had a particular severe winter, this year a mild one. The lack of midges last year compared the multitude this year is surely explained by those seasonal variations — last summer was comparably crap to this.
If the coming winter is mild and the following summer mild and wet, we’ll see numbers which will dwarf this. I’m hoping for another cold one. The lack of midges last year was wonderful!
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Oh great, so we have to freeze till we’re blue during the winter or suffer the little bloodsuckers the following summer. Personally, I blame the birds, the swallows to be precise. They have failed to keep to the productivity targets I have set them and I have therefore threatened them with eviction from the free accommodation under my eaves which I have always provided them. Lazy little beggars.
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Maybe they’ve migrated to Castleton and Cairnbaan (though I’m told that bats rather than swallows are the best midge hunters)
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I think you may find that the drop in the swallow population is due to a massive storm in Africa during which thousands of swallows were blown off-course and died!
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This explains a puzzle. Noticed that the swallows were very late arriving this year (blown off course) and fewer than usual (losses in Africa). Thank you.
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Thanks for setting me straight. Poor things, now I feel so churlish for slagging them.
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Are you sure we are talking swallows here and not house martins?
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Can’t answer for the African disaster but, personally, finally learned the difference between Swallows and House Martins a few years ago (tails).
Our swallows seemed to arrive around 6 weeks later than usual this time.
Lynda
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