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To me the sound of the screaming swifts at dusk always reminds me of my childhood . Happy memories !!
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Last few photos now processed. They are very dark, so when you bring up the shadows they are quite noisy: Topaz Sharpen AI used on all to manage that.
Swift rescue. Amazed to find this little fella or lass in my daughters room. What an incredible bird to have in the hand. The wings are something else!
Just one of the many decaying buildings at the old, abandoned Swift Meat Packing Plant ruins at the Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. A couple years before this shot was made, this particular building had been used as a production office during the time when the location was used as a set for a Guatamalan prison on the Fox TV show "Prison Break". Photo taken in February 2011.
Night, full moon, natural strobe.
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Taylor Swift tries to control her hair against the wind as she visits St. Paul’s Cathedral with a few friends in London on Thursday (May 7).
The 19-year-old country sensation tweeted, “Went to St. Paul’s Cathedral today. Four hundred gazillion stairs + being scolded three different times for having my camera out = fun.”
Taylor performed to a sold-out crowd last night at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
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241) House Swift
House Swift, Apus nipalensis, Layang-layang Rumah
Found from Nepal to Southeast Asia region. Aerial creature that only landed on its nest. Common bird that nesting in buildings at both urban and rural area. Feed on insect that it catch in midair.
Layang-layang Rumah sering disalah kenal sebagai Walit. Ia lebih besar saiznya berbanding Walid. Selalu kelihatan bersarang di bangunan di kawasan bandar dan kampung.
Swift Creek is a tributary of the Suwannee near White Springs, Fl. It lives up to its name with fast moving water that at low levels traverses sets of rapids on its way to confluence.
The swift fox is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It also lives in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada. It became nearly extinct in the 1930s as a result of predator control programs, but was successfully reintroduced later. Currently, the conservation status of the species is considered by the IUCN as endangered.
Taken on a sunny, windy day at RSPB Frampton Marsh, which does help 'hold' them in the air a little longer when they whiz past you!
Photographing swifts is so much fun. It does after a few hours result in a lot of deleting as well as aching arms and shoulders. As the sun drops exposure is a lot easier but the window of opportunity is small. The red glow in this bird was about 10 mins before I had to give up for the day due to fading light.
Taken and first posted in 2010 as a small image. Please support "swift-conservation.org" to ensure the future of these birds.
Dewlish, Dorset.
The Swift is a medium-sized aerial bird, which is a superb flyer. Sleeping, eating, bathing and even mating on the wing (while flying), Swifts rarely touch the ground. They are also the fastest birds in level flight, with an impressive top speed of 69mph. Swifts are plain sooty brown, with a white throat, but in flight against the sky they appear black. They have curved wings and a forked tail. Swifts are summer visitors, breeding across the UK, but are most numerous in the south and east. Spending their winters in Africa, Swifts migrate 3,400 miles twice a year, stopping off to refuel in places like Portugal and France along the way. (RSPB).
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Swift Current Falls gets its name for a good reason. This is not a place you want to fall into the water. It would be more than a bumpy ride down. The locations is one of the easiest places to get to however most don’t see it from this angle because they look at it from the bridge above. While it looks good from above I really like the walk down to look back up at the falls and the Mountain in the background. I missed sunrise at this location because I was shooting wildlife but I would love to come back and shoot it during sunrise.
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If you wait long enough they open their mouths. Which is strange considering their screaming when they buzz you.
In Montell, Uvalde County. I'm not completely sure about the species ID, but think the swift setwing fits.
08-08-15_MG_5965 Was a nice surprise to find this one perched their numbers have been dropping rather fast this year for some reason.
A couple of record shots of Swift from 2013. Have tried hard over the years to get shots of these but they are so fast & difficult. They will be back soon but I do not see them in my part of the village, much too built up now
While tracking 1 I hit the trigger just as a second popped into view. Luck more than judgement here.
It took a lot of shots to get one worth posting! These birds are FAST! Did you know their feet and legs are so tiny they can barely walk but in the air they are incredible.
Frangocastello, Crete.
Another pallid swift candidate. As before pale median coverts, significant fringing of the body feathers, and due to to very pale face/throat the eye looks very dark
Swift Creek is a tributary of the Suwannee River near White Springs, FL. Its namesake is apparent to anyone who visits it, as its water frequently races down a deep (for Florida) limestone gorge into the Suwannee. I had visited this one less than a month before this shot when the water was much higher and the light was poor. I anticipated being able to photograph this one in a long exposure racing through its channel. What I didn't anticipate were the rapids that were revealed at low water in this creek, numerous ones in the last 100 yards before its confluence with the Suwannee and even more upstream. I even found a small spring flowing through the karst, pictures of which I will share later.
In my efforts to get a at least a vaguely crisp panning shot of a swift over the last few weeks, I had collected quite a few shots of them doing their amazing acrobatics as they zoomed across the sky to catch an insect meal. They were inevitably photographed at varying heights and distances, so many were just too small in frame to carry as a photographic composition. I thought I might montage lots of the better shots together on a single frame, so here they all are, showing off all their twists and turns. If you peer closely, you can see one bird was caught by the shutter just as he/she opened their beak to swallow an insect.
One of my last shots from the Narrows in Zion National Park. The crowds really thin out the deeper you go into the Narrows. I think this was about 3 miles in from the start of the Narrows. Finding compositions in the Narrows is a lot fun. This shot is one of my favorite water flow shots I've taken. Nice water curves wrapping around the rocks really makes this my favorite image from the Narrows. We didn't finish the the Narrows until 6 or 7pm, so the light was a lot darker and cooler than some of my earlier shots.
Narrows
Zion National Park, Utah
I just posted my summer timelapse project online. youtu.be/AIdznH2bYwA