Posted by Steve Rushing on August 18, 2022 at 5:12 pm
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The ‘Annual Gathering of the Kites’ is underway in Georgia. Flocks of Swallow-tailed & Mississippi Kites are gathering over pasturelands & hay fields of inland Georgia to forage for grasshoppers, junebugs, dragonflies & many other insects.
Swallow-tailed Kites breed in the river system bottomlands & swamps of the coastal plain. In late summer many move inland to eat the plentiful insects in pasture grasslands & hay fields. An aerial display that is captivating to watch & photograph.
The insect fat & protein prepares them for the long haul back to deep South America, where the insects are beginning to peak in the pasturelands & grasslands in the Southern Hemisphere summer.