Title: Swallows at Pelee Point [2005]
Notes: We trekked around the boardwalk at Pelee Point in Detroit this summer admiring the acres of reeds filled to the brim it seemed with red-winged black birds. They were everywhere! Unfortunately they wouldn't stay still enough close enough for me to get a picture of them. We got back to the lookout tower at the shore just as dusk was beginning to settle and the light wasn't too good anymore. We climbed up to get a few shots before we left and I found these wonderful swallows nesting everywhere. They'd swoop down around my head and watch us inquisitively. The one perched on the light right beneath my feet so I stuck the camera over the edge and got a few shots. The others I shot blindly because the light wasn't enough to register, but when I looked at them later I was thrilled to catch so many of them still in mid flight. Really pretty birds, they have a very neat call too.
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