Here is some video of the same phenomenon in Salisbury State Reserve, MA last week (Friday morning). I estimated at least 5000 Tree Swallows. The dark clouds on the parking lots are all Tree Swallows sitting.
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Michael Smith MS GISP
State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS
State of Maine, Office of Information Technology
michael.smith _at_ maine.gov 207-215-5530
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From: maine-birds@googlegroups.com [mailto:maine-birds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of brad woodward
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:30 AM
To: maine-birds@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Maine-birds] Massive Flight of Tree Swallows Roosting/Soaring at Ogunquit (4 pics)
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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