Bomb Island, Lake Murray, SC - July 2011

This is the most amazing phenomena and worth a trip at sunset to Bomb Island in the middle of Lake Murray near Columbia. There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of Purple Martins roosting here and in a few weeks they will be gone - back to South America. More info here: http://www.lakemurray-sc.com/purplemartins.html
This is part of my project about the cycle of gourd farming for Purple Martins, their arrival, their breeding and raising their young, their gathering on Bomb Island and finally their departure for South America. This will be an organized photo essay one day ....