Country diary: The house martins are gone, but not forgotten | Ed Douglas

Wildlife | The Guardian ·
Animal & Wildlife

Lockerbrook, Derbyshire: Their migration is miraculous, yet still not completely known. But they were here, and now they are not The sudden absence of something, even though you know it’s coming, can dent the heart a little. The Japanese, inevitably, have a phrase for it: mono no aware , the pathos of things – and by things, in this case, I mean house martins. Last week I had stood in the same…

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