Spectacle! Tens of thousands of swallows
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- Published: Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:49
“escape the summer” in a small fishing village
Tens of thousands of swallows stopped on the wire, looking at it from afar, like beating notes on a stave. (Photo by Sun Jijing and Wu Ligao)
At about 7 o'clock on July 5, on the coastal trail in front of the Cultural Auditorium of Xue Aoxia Fishing Village in Qiangjiao Town, Ninghai County, the sky was just dark, and swallows began to fly from the sea and surrounding villages in Ninghai Bay, dancing and playing in the air and preying. Slowly, more and more gatherings, the sky is crushed by black pressure, flocks of swallows sing happily over the seaside houses, and the grand scene makes people amazed.
As the sky grew darker, the swallows circled in the air for about half an hour, and then gradually landed and stopped at the roadside power line. When landing, first one swallow leads the way, and the rest of the swallows follow the stop, and the distance between them is almost equal, like a well-trained soldier in line, densely packed, and never collides, and the few swallows that do not occupy a position perch under the eaves of buildings on both sides of the road.
When all the swallows settled, and the more than 300-meter-long wires on both sides of the road were parked with swallows, the chattering “summer night concert” returned to calm
