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I spent this week at a place called Baiwan in the Guangdong karst country about 100 km north-west of Qingyuan, itself about 55 km north of Guangzhou.
Needless to say it was freezing - below 5 degrees at times perhaps - and the numerous Red-rumped Swallows of the area were either sheltering in their tunnel-entranced nests, sitting around on the ground or, eventually, feeding very low over streams (in fact open sewers, all too often), flooded paddy stubble or patches of drying rice, peanuts, beans etc.
Mike Turnbull
