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I have to say, out of all the birds I’ve photographed, the swift has to be the most challenging. I have a hard drive full of swift shots and only found a few I’m happy with, this being one of them!
I've never really tried taking photos of swifts but there were a few flying around the sea wall at RSPB Frampton Marsh so I thought I'd give it a go. As I expected it wasn't easy but I was quite happy with some of the photos I got
On a hazy day back when RoadRailer trains were a thing, solo UP6754 (GE C44AC) rolls around Tehachapi Loop with 37 Swift RoadRailer units in September 2000.
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Spent a bit of time today watching these tiny aerial acrobats. Moving at speeds between 70 and 105mph, they are a challenging subject to say the least!
In the snowy wildness of Churchill, Canada, a red fox dashed gracefully across the frozen landscape.
Swift Creek in Scout Canyon. Swift Creek is fed by Periodic Spring aka Intermittent Spring is one of the very few springs in the world that starts and stops at regular intervals. It is the largest intermittent spring in the United States and is the water source for the town of Afton, Wyoming.
Estoril Racing Kickoff 2nd Apr 22
SINGLE SEATER SERIES QLFY
Driver: A. RODRIGUES
Team: ANTONIO RODRIGUES
Car: SWIFT
Without you, there is no time
The bee acquires the stillness of a stone
And nature's frantic flap assumes a stationary stance.
Colour fades and life is held as though in heavy glass
The swift, suspended inches from her nest
Will there remain 'til after you return.
for my Elastigirl
I love Swifts almost as much as the Swallows Etc,but trying to get the exposure right i find can be very difficult.
This guy dropped in front of my feet 2 years ago, fainted by the heat under the roof probably. I fed him several weeks (every hour! - I even took him every day to my job!), until his wings were long enough (and my god, they ARE long!), then brought him to a bird center where they could return him to the skies... I really LOVE swifts, they make me think of summer. A pity we only see them during 3 months here in Belgium, when they're nesting here.
Yesterday morning our local Swifts were flying over the garden so I went out with my camera for some target practice. This wasn't my best photo of the session, but a Swift feeding is something I've been trying to photograph for ages. They fly around catching flying insects which they store in their crop to take back to the nest. They can catch up to a thousand insects before returning to feed the chicks. David Lack who studied Swifts nesting in a tower at Oxford University counted 312 different species of insect and spider in these bug balls, and found that typically they contain 3-500 insects. Because winged insect food is so variable and unpredictable the youngsters can go into a kind of torpor, dropping their body temperature and arresting their development, then resuming to normal development when the insects start to reappear. They probably hunt at about 25 mph but even at this speed they can differentiate between insects. One swift was found to have caught several stingless drone honeybees but neatly avoided all of the stinging females. It is thought that each Swift may catch 10,000 insects in a day, which makes it surprising that this is the first time I have managed to photograph one feeding.
Camera ModelCanon EOS 7D
LensEF400mm f/5.6L USM
Tv( Shutter Speed )1/1250
Av( Aperture Value )8
ISO Speed1000
FlashOn
الخرشنة المتوجة الكبيرة
تأتي طيور الخرشنة إلى جزيرة كبّر في شهر مايو وتغادرها مع أفراخها في نهاية شهر أغسطس حيث يبقى القليل منها في جنوب الكويت في فصل الشتاء وتتكاثر الخرشنة في جزيرة كبر باعتبار المكان المناسب لها لتفريخها لوجود المرجان التي تكون مأوى للأسماك الصغيرة التي تتواجد وتعيش بالقرب من الساحل وحول الجزيرة والتي تعتبر الغذاء الرئيسي لها.
I was very pleased to see my first swifts of 2015,they were not my local swifts and they wouldnt come to close.But hopefully i will get better shots in the weeks to come,i will have to check to see if my local ones have returned.
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.