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One swallow to make summer
The Sunday Mirror
|June 29, 2025
Aristotle's timeless adage about single swallows never heralding the arrival of summer lost all credibility with an eye-opening flash of a sunburnt backside.
The season of blue skies and sultry temperatures was there to behold in all its glory after an up-close-and-personal view of one of the most beautiful visitors to Portugal's coastal wetlands.
No bird exudes the essence of summer birding amid the tamarisk scrublands dotted along the Algarve quite like a red-rumped swallow sallying and soaring in the crystal-clear light of a new day.
This story is from the June 29, 2025 edition of The Sunday Mirror.
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