Look up!

If I hadn't procrastinated and gone for a walk around the block at high noon today, I would have missed a wonderful sight. I heard them before I saw them-- a high-pitched chittering that seemed to come from the tops of the trees on all sides. Then they flew over me about twenty feet off the ground, over a house near me. Swallow-tailed kites, three of them. They circled back and began to climb higher and higher, still calling for a while. I stopped to watch. Then I looked down for a moment and they were gone.