Breathnaigh Siar: Foilsithe ar dtús 27 Lúnasa 2024
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Timpeall an t-am seo gach bliain, imíonn na fáinleoga. Beidh siad ar a dturas fada go dtí an Aifric, chun an teas agus an ghrian. 6,000 míle gan stad sula bhainfear amach a gceann scríbe san Aifric Theas. Dhá chead mhíle gach lá ar feadh mí iomlán. Éacht mór gan amhras, agus gan a ithe acu ach na cuileoga agus feithidí eile ar sciatháin mar ghreim bia.
Scríobh Pádraig Mac Piarais scéal galánta faoi na fáinleoga, dar teideal Eoghainín na nÉan.. Fabhalscéal faoi gharsúin breoite a bhí ag feitheamh le teacht na héanlaith san Earrach, agus san Fhómhair d’imigh sé leo “go dtí an tír ina mbíonn sé ina Shamhradh i gcónaí.”
My daughter inherited a swallow’s nest. It sits high up on a pipe in their garage and is an impressive structure that would remind you of An Grianán Aileach or even the Hebrew fort at Masada. Built to last – and sure enough some of the previous occupants who had left last Autumn returned in April this year to give birth to a new family of the wee creatures. As shown, that includes your boy on the right who bears an uncanny resemblance in colour and demeanour to my own dog Barney Grant the aging curmudgeon of a Yorkshire Terrier.
Is lú an méid tagairtí do na fáinleoga sa bhéaloideas i gcomparáid d’éanlaith eile mar ár sean chara an tUasal Spideog, nó an dreoilí,n nó dream an fharraige. “Nuair a bhíonn na fáinleoga ag eitilt go híseal sin comharta droch aimsir.”
Tá Oileán na bhFáinleog gar do Mhaigh Cuilinn i nGaillimh ach is beagán logainmneacha eile atá luaite leis na fáinleoga. B’fhéidir go bhfuil an méid sin thíos don nóisean nach bhfuil na fáinleoga ach sórt turasóirí?
Even though in other cultures the migration of the swallows was regarded as one of the symbols of the cycle of life itself. They left with the darkening of the evenings and the coming of Winter, and they returned with the Spring and the promise of warmth and new life among all the creatures of the world including ourselves.
Tá m’iníon agus a pháirtí ag fanacht leis a gcéad leanbh. Tá an sean fhear seo ag tnúth go mór leis nó léi. Buachaill nó leanbh, mar a deir an Lucht Siúil. Is cuma liom. Rotha Mór an tSaoil ag casadh fós.