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I wanted to post a tribute to my old friend Ed Swift from Warren, MA. Ed was an avid railfan photographer who passed away in 2009. Ed served his country as an aviator in WW II, Korea and Vietnam. He flew transport planes at the end of the war in the Pacific including a forced landing in the ocean with all the crew surviving. Ed loved his classic Alpa cameras as he is holding in this picture in Palmer, MA on March 28, 2003.
Photo by Andy
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Photographing swifts feels a bit like playing a video game, with targets flying at you from random angles at ridiculous speeds.
Helen and I have been enjoying trying to keep these amazing birds in frame immensely and it's been a real thrill having these speedsters whizzing past us, often passing by within a few feet so you could hear the whoosh as they passed by.
We wondered whether they were paying us such close attention because we were attracting the insects (some of which bite) that they were feeding on.
Interesting fact "As the bird is hunting, insects are collected in the back of the throat in a special food pouch and bound together with saliva into a ball called a bolus, which is periodically eaten or taken to the nest. These food balls can contain thousands of insects.
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So Taylor Swift arrived in Sydney at 1.25pm today by private jet.
Flight VJ993. The most tracked flight on Flightradar, lol.
And so here is a Sydney summer sunset for Taylor. Photographed from Cremorne Point, exactly where her weekend harbour cruise will undoubtedly take her!!
And I am now officially poorer than ever before, with Miss 16 and Miss 18 all set for Sunday's epic Taylor Swift concert at the Sydney Olympic Stadium (Accor Stadium), with tickets costing a stupidly ridiculous $379.90(AUS) each for A Reserve.
No flat white coffees and lemon tarts for me for six months - at least.
But no doubt I will 'Shake it Off'. And so here's Taylor Swift with her iconic song 'Shake if Off', lol.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvVBuG4IOW4
I am now going to get a plain bread roll and water from Aldi.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
ACDME Race Weekend GT3 Cup
SINGLE SEATER SERIES - Race 2
Car: Swift SC97
Driver: Pedro Vilarinho
Team: Pedro Vilarinho
A critically endangered bird with estimates to be between 300 and 2,000 left in the wild. Taken at Taronga Zoo. I've been trying to get a decent photo of one for years.
Swift found crash-landed in the garden yesterday - I assumed heat exhaustion but later saw another swift being chased by a hobby so who knows. Drip-fed water from a syringe and watched over it for just over an hour when it was able to relaunch itself. We have them nesting in our attic so it may just have got too hot up there.
Early morning i found two baby swift. They are already fed, in 15-20 days they will be ready to fly.
A challenge to photograph - they are not called Swifts for nothing. This one, along with hundreds more, was patrolling over Bartley Reservoir in SW Birmingham UK - 02-06-23 #Springwatch
A Swift Fox (Vulpes fulva) stands guard at the entrance to her den with several young on the prairie landscape in southeast Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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Interactive display between a pair of Swift Fox (Vulpes fulva) at the entrance to their den on the grasslands of southeast Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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About 1,500 of this type of car were made at the Swift Factory in Mile Lane, Coventry. It would have cost £595 when new. This 1923 Swift Tourer, ES 5309, was purchased by the Coventry Transport Museum in 2003 with aid from the Preservation Scientific and Industrial Museums Fund.
Photo taken at: RSPB Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/fowlmere
Species Information: www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/swift
A family of Swift Fox (Vulpes fulva) in mutual grooming on the prairie landscape in southern Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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A Swift Fox (Vulpes fulva) enjpying the sunset at the edge of its den on the prairie grasslands in southern Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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A straight swift sucking nectar of the cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) flower.
Parnara guttata (Straight swift or Common straight swift, ‘Ichimonji-seseri’ in Japanese) is a species of butterfly in the skipper family, native to Japan and eastern Asia. Cosmos bipinnatus (Garden cosmos, 'Ooharushagiku' in Japanese) is a species of annual flowering plant in the aster family, native to Americas and cultivated worldwide.
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Tracking a swift over the water is something I love to try. It eats batteries, makes the arm muscles burn and fills up memory cards with blurry shots really quickly.
Before work today I was able to do a quick one and done with the joint MBTA & NHN PTC Test Train. The train is seen heading east off the Grand Junction Running Track at Swift in Somerville, MA.
After much failure I finally got one flying at me! Not perfect by any stretch, but still feels Yippee to me!
Photo by Helen :-)
A straight swift stopping over at the blue mistflower.
Parnara guttata (Straight swift or Common straight swift, ‘Ichimonji-seseri’ in Japanese) is a species of butterfly in the skipper family, native to Japan and eastern Asia. Conoclinium coelestinum (Mistflower, formerly Eupatorium coelestinum) is a perennial flowering plant in the aster family, native to North America.
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Following a period of self isolation and a negative Covid test, we were allowed out again yesterday. You don’t realise how much you miss the outdoors until you’re can’t go outside, even for a walk. The weather has turned a little warmer and the sun came out for a couple of hours. All kinds of shenanigans were going on behind the reeds at the far end of the pond. Lots of splashing and quacking noises as the drakes were chasing the lady ducks around. Hopefully in a few weeks we will once again witness new life as the duckings start to appear.
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The Swift is the most popular fly fishing destination in Massachusetts, with maybe the exception of the Deerfield: great scenery, many big fish, and it fishes well all year-round.
But, it is also the most technical fishery in Massachusetts, and it can be a real challenge to hook the super-picky rainbows. With some research, you can find out a lot about the river... (see below link).
Morning capture there along the Swift River and the covered bridge located at Conway, New Hampshire.
Lovely to nab a swift yesterday. Caught this one mid catch, the fly had no hope. The light was a bit iffy and I was struggling a little to get back in the flow having barely used my camera over the last few months.
This attractive looking male Orange Swift (Triodia sylvina) was resting on a piece of cardboard in the conservatory waiting for dusk. I couldn’t resist such opportunity. It turned out to be a patient and cooperative model. Bath, Somerset, England.