Their aerial performances are special
King, you've never seen an aerial performance until you cut a hay field and are literally swarmed with purple martins and barn swallows. They hear the equipment running and they know it stirs up the bugs hiding in the fields. Half the time I wind up screwing up my wind rows because I'm distracted by the these two species that are simply incredible flyers. At times I'm surrounded by several dozen birds. A few them come close enough on their pass that I could have reached out and grabbed them if I wanted to.
