Swallows to follow

SIR – Please inform those in Devon and Cornwall that the swallows are on their way (Letters, May 16).

During an idyllic couple of days at Wildboarclough in the Peak District this week, there were swallows swooping and preening outside our window each day. Neil Bunyan

Flitwick, Bedfordshire

SIR – From yesterday’s letters to the editor I deduce that, as the swallows and martins have not yet arrived from the southern hemisphere, there have not been enough birds to eat the plague of insects complained about by readers on the same page. Chris Harding

Parkstone, Dorset