This morning I was standing outside waiting for the kids to get ready for school and watching the swallows fly in the fresh morning air. Sometimes I wish I was more articulate in English and could explain exactly how a swallow swoops through the air flapping its wings rapidly for a few seconds and then spreading them out and soaring into the rising columns of air, fanning its forked tail open and closed all the time changing direction so fast that it is impossible for a human to even begin to react to a change of direction that fast. Swallows are by far my favourite birds with their dark almost black colour having just a tinge of dark blue. They have a large wingspan for such a small bird, about the length of a standard classroom ruler, with a small body half the length. The tips of their wings are curved backwards allowing them to look a bit like a cartoon batman.
These tiny birds take off at the end of summer in the southern hemisphere and fly halfway across the earth to somewhere in the north. This fact amazes and fills me with awe every time I see a swallow doing its antics in the sky.
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| Swallows on the lifelines |
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