Tree Swallows Landing
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I set up shop on a boardwalk running through a meadow in the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. The meadow has a dozen bird houses on poles for the tree swallows living there and one of them was within focal reach of our long lenses.
Here are two (male closer, female behind) landing on the top edge of a house. When I think about the coordination needed for a bird to land I appreciate what navy pilots have to do to land jets on aircraft carriers.
