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Coyote Lake, Gilroy CA
Tom spotted this Double-crested Cormorant with a very large fish. We thought that it might need to bash the fish around a bit, to make it more edible. Nope. It just grabbed the head, flung it upright, and swallowed the whole thing down. Fast. I just do not even understand how that works!
My final test was with the 300f4/OM1 combo shooting swallows. I was taken aback when I was able to capture many great flight shots of the speedy birdie through the EVF. O normally use a dot sight for BIF. The Bird Detection of the white rectangles certainly help locate where the bird is flying.
Next I need to upgrade to FW 1.2 to get consistent AF from OM1. All in All I am very please at how this cam performed for birding
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Incoming of the Swallow Folks, I think this one should have been the first in the series, mad a mistake and you bwill see why tomorrow.
Swallow Falls is the highest continuous waterfall in Wales. The falls are set on the River Llugwy two miles west of Betws-y-Coed along the A5 to Capel Curig, in the beautiful Gwydir Forest.
At the Caravan site where I am staying ,this pair of swallows are nesting in the foyer of the rest-rooms.
When they are being cleaned they wait patiently outside sitting on the hand rails,oblivious to people walking past.
Im pleased to say they now have four little hatchlings in the nest.
Taken in Cornwall.
taken in the rain at Barbury Castle Wilts
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I'm very behind on my printing :-) Handmade chloride silver gelatin emulsion on Saunders Waterford paper.
Having a rest in a Shower, its hard to think these few week old Swallows will be off to Africa in the next few weeks
Species: Hirundo rustica.
Swallows are small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts and long tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time on the wing. They are widespread breeding birds in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating south in winter. Info: RSPB.
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Barn Swallow
(Hirundo rustica) is a fairly large, colorful swallow. Usually easy to identify with its long, forked tail and dark rump. Iridescent navy-blue above with a rich orange throat and forehead. Underparts vary across range, from bright buffy-orange to whitish. Occurs in any open habitat, especially large fields and wetlands. Often seen foraging in flocks, sometimes mixed with other species of swallow.
The fun of shooting (I should really say "attempting to shoot") Tree Swallows is that they are tiny fast birds that aren't bothered by your presence. In fact, they enjoy darting around and frustrating your attempt to photograph them. That said, they provide lots of opportunities and if you take enough shots, especially with the modern cameras that focus so quickly, it is possible. Even better, when you get them on the computer at home, and crop down, which is for me a necessity on birds this small, you sometimes find some prizes. Here's one in the act of catching a fly which you can see if you squint hard enough.
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All my posts so far since lockdown have been from the garden. This swallow is last year on this date so I must go and check if they have arrived...it's only a bike ride away.
^^Swallow^^ New Gauged XL for lel Evo X Ears (m/f) Group GIFT
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His earrings: ^^Swallow^^ Earrings GAUGED XL02 (f/m)
Her Earrings: ^^Swallow^^ Earrings GAUGED XL01
"“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me."
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
If there's one poet I love more than William Blake, it's Emily Dickinson. In many ways the Sage from Amherst was just as difficult to understand as Blake (whom she had read thoroughly of course). But Dickinson is beguiling for the way she dressed her complexity in simple words.
Here in this dull industrial landscape a lone swallow flies. We are kin to each other that bird and I. Here I was taking some photographs that capture a moment, and that feathered creature was darting around simply enjoying the thrill of the moment. Somewhere, as Emily Dickinson said, there is "Hope".
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Ears: ^^Swallow^^ New Gauged XL for lel Evo X Ears (m/f)
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