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Young country diary: The house martins are back – I can hear the chicks from my bedroom

Norfolk: My dad said they hadn’t been on this street for 20 years – so where have they been?

Looking out of my bedroom window, I kept seeing movement – something fast and blurry. I went outside with my dad to see what it was. He couldn’t believe it – they were house martins.

He told me that house martins were all around these houses 20 years ago, but then they all left and never came back, and we don’t know why. This is the first summer that they have returned to this street since then, and they were building a nest right next to my bedroom window.

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Jun 27, 2026 Birds Environment Rural affairs

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