Barn Swallows East Point Bird Sanctuary

cosmo3667 · **on:** April 29, 2015, 05:47:51 PM

A trip to East Point on Monday proved successful, the midges were out in full force as were the Barn Swallows flying about in the hundreds in a feeding frenzy. Tired of all the flying they would occasionally rest in groups while equal amounts of birds remained in the skies above.

Dinusaur · **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2015, 11:06:31 PM

What a sight - beautiful composition.

thouc · **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2015, 09:12:17 AM

Interesting to see the variation in the amount of rust colour underneath. Could the lighter coloured ones be younger birds, as juveniles are white underneath?

/Thomas

BetCrooks · **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2015, 12:29:04 PM

I think in general the females are lighter underneath but there's a lot of variation.

Rotarran · **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2015, 03:09:09 PM

Hey that looks like a nice community

mc · **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2015, 06:30:30 PM

cosmo

these are fantastic pics........when i was there on tuesday, all we saw were red-winged blackbirds....

cosmo3667 · **Reply #6 on:** April 30, 2015, 08:32:05 PM

maybe it was the millions of midges that were out that day

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