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Re swallows, from the British Trust for Ornithology’s migration blog for this week:
‘The cold weather and northerly winds from the last week will likely to have caused a bit of a bottleneck for those species migrating northwards across Europe but with a change in wind direction and an improvement in day time temperatures, 17 degrees is possible for some locations, this bottleneck could lead to a large pulse of migrants reaching us from the weekend onwards. Those species likely to be involved will include Swallow, House and Sand Martin and in particular Willow Warbler and Blackcap. All of these are good candidates to appear over or in our gardens over the next few days.’

I’ve seen a male and a female blackcap in the garden over the past week.