Friday, September 25, 2009

Haircut, Playground, Chimney Swifts

We went into the city today so Nikki could get a haircut. This is what it looks like:

After a helping of Ray's Hell Burgers, we went home and walked around. We wound up at the small playground down the street.






On the way back home, we stopped and talked to a birdwatcher. There have been a lot of birdwatchers on our block lately. It turns out we live next to a fairly well-known roost of chimney swifts. They are pretty amazing birds and seem to be going to town on the huge amounts of flying insects we have right now. (p.s. by Nikki: Thanks, Darla, for tipping us off about them!) Here's a video of them: