I know it isn’t going to be long now
The swallows are gathering. Waiting for the little ones to get enough strength to migrate.
Each and every day I watch them start to have more and more Swallows arrive to begin the big migration.
Our swallows are the last to come in the Spring and the last to leave in the fall. It won’t be long now. I hope I can see them go. Only once did I get to see them all lift as one, swirl around the farm and our house as if saying good-bye…then rise way up into the sky in a joyful dance.
And then were gone.
One once! But that once was a Huge wonderful gift!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Our hummingbirds are gone, over the weekend and the starlings and red wings have been gone. We had our first frost yesterday morning and can’t remember it this early.
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Oh my that is early. A hard winter coming
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Afraid so and dreading it.
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Sigh
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I hope you get to see that, too! What an amazing “goodbye, till next year!”
We had an awful storm Sunday. The hail reduced my flowers & garden to sticks. But the hummers made it through the storm! I am sure they’ll be heading off rather soon ~ 🍂
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Oh! Gosh! I’m so sorry. I am very glad those teeny tiny birds survived! Mine are just the ones
migrating through. I’m down from six feeders to one.
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Gosh I am sorry
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Sounds awe-inspiring!
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They are
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Here in east central Wisconsin they left on the 28th of August. Here one day, all gone the next. Kind of sad.
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Yes it is
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I hope you do get to see them say “good-bye until net year!”
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Me too
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Chaplin: “Hmm … Maybe we should go meet them in Capistrano?”
Charlee: “I’ll have Dada fetch the car!”
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That could be fun!
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Lovely birds. They sky looked ominous.
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We got a sprinkle that is all
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We need some sprinkles, too.
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What a fine memory!
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A once in a lifetime
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