[va-richmond-general] Re: Swallows at Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park
- From: "Janice Frye" <jjfdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <nancym.ambler@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:02:46 -0400
Did she say whether they roost there every year? Sounds beautiful!
Jan
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Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:56 PM
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Subject: [va-richmond-general] Swallows at Big Meadows, Shenandoah National
Park
Late yesterday afternoon, 4:00-5:00 pm, I was privileged to see thousands of
swallows (primarily and perhaps totally barn, and I could not estimate more
precisely their numbers) throughout the entire meadows at Big Meadows in
Shenandoah National Park (about 2 hours, 15 minutes from Richmond). I asked
a Ranger about the situation and she advised they are forming for migration
and will be gone by the end of August. To be amidst these graceful,
beautiful birds -- swirling, swooping, diving, circling, at once purposeful
but simultaneously almost with a sense of carefree abandon -- was a totally
unexpected time of grace.
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