Gowanus Twilight

Yesterday afternoon, I walked over the canal and was surprised by a pair of Kestels cavorting in the air, then two more, flying about. I didn’t have my real camera, so for our post-prandial constitutional we walked down into the valley to see if we could catch the family again. I’d spotted the nest earlier, in a rotten cornice, as is usual here in the city, but at sunset there was no sign of them. Still, there were compensations: these things, and Swifts, and then, nearing home, the fireflies.