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From Bert Vaux on Facebook, from the Belgian paper De Standaard:

Roughly, the first swallow is not what it used to be.

A play on the formula the first swallow of summer — the harbinger of the summer season. (Last year’s first sighting reported on the (UK) National Trust site here.)

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