I photographed these Bank Swallow nestlings at the south end of Ocean Beach back in 2009 but remember being out there almost as if it were just the other day.
No elaborate nests for these guys. They just burrow into a sandy cliff and lay some eggs.
The babies come out to the edge of the abyss to get fed, and once in a while they go a little too far. I found a baby at the bottom of the cliff one day. I didn't know which hole it fell out of, and I could only reach one of them anyway, so I placed it up there on the off chance the adults would feed it.
I fired off a lot of frames trying to catch one of these speedy guys in flight, and this is about as good as I got.
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