After being off exercise due to an injury, tonight was the first time in a week and a half that I had the chance to go out for a post-work cycle. For the last few days we have been blessed by a the Spanish plume that has brought warmth to a late summer and the air was still well above 20 degrees when I went out.

Part way along my route I came across a busy gathering of swallows lining up on the telegraph wire, waiting to start their autumn migration southbound to Africa.  I tried to get a picture of all of them on the wires but each time a car came along, they all took off.