Exit 238
by Henry Davis
One autumn evening around dusk, filmmaker Henry Davis stopped by a strip mall in his neighborhood in Austin, Texas, and noticed thousands of birds swirling overhead. He had stumbled across the roosting-grounds of migrating purple martins, one of many stops along their annual five-thousand-mile journey from the northeastern United States to southern Brazil. Returning with his camera over the following week, he joined the patchworked community of shoppers, employees, passersby, and avid birdwatchers to bear witness to this momentary confluence of humans and birds.
