SteveSS
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We don't have hardly any bugs this high up but we do get these brown moths at this time of year. We call them Miller Moths. They get attracted to the heat of car engines at night. So the next day as cars move around the moths escape out into the air mostly while vehicles are stopped at traffic lights. The Chimney Swifts have figured this out and have adapted to it. At every traffic intersection whether it's in town or at two highways out in the country the swifts are darting in and out of traffic, the high wires and traffic signals. Ready and waiting for the moths. I've never seen them land. Their aerobatics are amazing as they pick off these moths while they try to escape the increasing engine bay heat.
Nature at its best.
Nature at its best.