Scanning the skies around Lough Arrow, Co Sligo, for returning visitors... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Swallows' Return, by Brian Farrell above.
I've been looking at the sky since March, though I knew it was too early then.
I was also denying the fact that I hear them first anyway.
On one occasion, I nearly cut off my big toe while digging the garden. I had heard their excited chatter and looked to the sky, stabbing the spade towards the soil, while screaming "Swallows". I then galloped down the yard like a man possessed...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
