Yesterday I was amazed to find an enormous flock of presumably migrating tree swallows at Ogunquit Beach. Hard to give a count, but there certainly were many hundreds and quite possibly well over 1,000. Around 3:00 p.m. they were roosting in and swooping around a handful of low pines that sit in the dunes between the beach and the inner estuary. They preferred the open branches of a dead pine, but those were so densely packed they also came to rest on green pine boughs, and the sky around the pines was filled with swallows. I looked it up and a large flock of swallows is called a "flight."
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