Aerial ballet

Every summer day,
they perform a similar ballet,
motivated by the search for insects.

At the beginning of autumn,
their choreography spread to the entire community,
already heading to more hospitable distant lands (*).

For a few hours,
their shrill little cries composed a moving symphony
whose movements set the rhythm of their choreography.






(*) It seems that the town of Revel—more generally, the foothills of the Montagne Noire—lies on the migratory route of barn swallows and house martins nesting in the more northerly regions.