Hobbies / Books   (Gardening, walking, books, films, theatre etc.)

I also have been watching swallows flying around the garden and over the trees. About 30 birds giving a super display of aerobatics', when it was windy their speed and change of direction was incredible.
On a different subject, I was in Israel a few weeks ago ( the week before the trouble ) and we were visiting the baptising pool on the river Jordon and saw a bright blue bird flying up and down the river obviously fishing. It was about the size of a blackbird any idea what it might be.