Ian Bingham, in Aberdeen, wrote in message ...
" . . . .
The swallows are making them ready to fly,
Wheeling out on a windy sky.
Goodbye Summer! Goodbye! Goodbye!
. . . . "
("Goodbye!",
John Whyte-Melville).

On a wonderful late summer's evening, there are still lots of swallows
around here!

Went for an evening's walk along the coast at Whitburn Bay (near Sunderland,
Tyne & Wear) and there were loads of them swooping around across the flat
calm North Sea.

Maybe they had stopped for a break, en-route from Aberdeen to South Africa!

Regards... David Allan.