But tonight they had all taken to the air. And they were like a mob of kids on their skate-boards. This was not about looking for a meal. It was all about skidding sideways like the guys in Tokyo Drift, but through the sky, and diving and darting and pulling a rivals tail-feathers in full flight and swooping low and then sailing 100% vertical on a hot current.
And their squawking seemed exultant, not at all like the sound they make fighting over the spilled guts of a squirrel someone has run over with their car.
Its nice to watch animals "having fun". They are always so into it.