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I've taken (or attempted to take) a lot of swift shots over the last couple of days and most are total dross. Here's one of the few reasonable ones.
I think the focusing struggles with the high contrast between bright sky and a very dark bird - that or I'm total rubbish at BIF!
Apus apus. (Gierzwaluw)
A bird that flies around weather systems and lives up to twenty years in the wild. Hunting things that eat you.
At the moment in the wet and windy conditions they fly right past you at the sea dike. Ferocious, quite big, grayish brown, with some luck you see the white throat.
Darkroom print on fomabrom variant 111
Graflex, Kodak Ektar 127mm 4.7
Ilford FP4+ Amaloco.
Swift Creek splits into several branches at Canyon View Park in Afton, Wyoming, so little steel bridges are scattered throughout the park. Fallen leaves add to the picturesque location.
We have a very small number this year, all nesting in the one old barn. Now I'm getting on top of their flight plans, it's getting easier to catch them, but still a way to go.
This Swift was about 2 feet from the top of the grass.
Still trying to get one catching a fly in mid-air...
Swift by name and swift by nature - tricky birds to photograph!! Seen at The Abbey Halesowen West Midlands UK - 27-08-24
Two Juvenile swallows as book ends. Two
Juvenile Swifts looking in and in the middle an adult swallow feeding a juvenile.
White-throated Swifts are a bird found in western North America from northern California down to Honduras. The northern populations a migratory. They draw attention to themselves by their staccato chattering calls which to my ear sound very unswiftlike. They usually nest in high, rocky cliff crevices but can nest in buildings. I have seen them many times but usually at great distance. But on this trip to Baja we managed to find a few flying at low altitude so I managed to capture a photo. Its scientific name Aeronautes saxatlis translates as "air sailor of the rocks". You can see here that it's not just the throat that is white. There are also white flank patches and the tips to the secondary wing feathers are also white.
We climbed Ingleborough to find flocks of swifts at the top, feeding on the swarms of midges. (I haven’t painted the midges). The hill in the background is Pen-y-ghent which means roughly "windy hill" in the ancient British language. Watercolour 11x12", french ultramarine, quinacridone magenta, permanent rose, aureolin, cadmium yellow pale.
A short 26 car 910 drops downhill near Swift as it slows for the west siding switch. Todays meet between 910 and his westbound counterpart 909 will take place just ahead. GP38-2's 4438 and 4417 lead the way east on April 12, 1983.
Swift Fox (Vulpes velox) male comes to visit the family living in an underground den on the prairie landscape in southern Alberta near One-Four, Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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quite pleased with the general sharpness of this for such a fast bird . .quite pleased to have got it in the frame at all!
The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. This 1927 Swift, SF 7805, is seen at a lunchtime gathering at The Old Bull Inn, Inkberrow.
In August migrating chinook and sockeye salmon swim up Swift Creek at Valemount, British Columbia, Canada.
Every September, the Vaux's Swifts migrate through Portland and use a chimney at a local elementary school to roost. Up to 10,000 birds gather at sunset and put on an amazing show as they swoop in to the chimney. Hundreds of people come every night to hang out, picnic and watch the show. Occasionally a hawk comes by and provides a little added excitement by trying to get dinner.