Rodney Blackall wrote:
Two signs of the season in Buckingham:
MONDAY: very warm and sunny; late afternoon two nests of ants (small,
black) flew.
TUESDAY : warm and mostly sunny; combine harvester thundered up our road;
later, tractor came down twice with giant trailer-loads of grain.

Down here in deepest Dorset a couple of weeks back I was surprized to
watch a number of (young?) sparrows actually hovering to catch flying
ants in mid-air. Is this unusual or have I just not been observant
enough in previous years?