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During Swift Response 2023 exercise I was able to attend some practices at Bardenas Reales shooting range in Spain by USAF A10s. No real fire (not even BRRRRRRRT, because of the ammunition) but great flying demos, some of them for the media. A great day!
Swift Creek in Hamilton County is one of the Suwannee's more interesting tributaries. With a fast flow it lives up to its name.
Dublin Bus City Swift Liveried Volvo Olympian RV628 is seen on loan to Bus Eireann in August 2000 in Ashbourne County Meath on a 103 service
A view of Swift River, off the Kancamagus Highway, NH.
Boring tech note: The light was extraordinary, but some exposures were hard to compensate (i.e. shooting from deep shade into brightly lit foliage, etc.) so I spent most of the day shooting with a Tiffen Circular Polarizing Filter. I have found that it preserves the blue of the sky without compromising the vivid reds and yellows, and it prevents a lot of sky 'whiteouts' when shots include deep shadow and bright sky.
Thousands of vaux swifts fly around this chimney for about an hour and then all dive in and only happens for about 4 weeks a year!!! Hundreds of people were watching!! Sometimes they made super psychedelic patterns in the sky! Amazing to see! Thousands of birds flying in synchronicity??????!!!!!!!!!!!!! A person about 8 feet away got pooped on........ ;D
Wiki: During fall migration one of the highlights for birders is the large groups of Vaux’s swifts that communally roost in chimneys along their way. This fantastic show that the birds put on may consist of a few birds or many thousands. Agate Hall at the University of Oregon and Chapman School in Portland are two of the largest known sites in the world housing thousands of swifts and drawing many onlookers. Vaux’s swifts are linked with old growth forest and need large hollow snags for nesting. The species is likely declining and migration is a great time to survey the population.
It takes a lot of work with Setwings to get them to pose like this. They can be very skittish till they're used to you. And you have to have just-the-right-light. My Georgia yard after a two-day photo session ;-)
One of many Swifts from today at Stodmarsh in between the rain showers. The fastest birds in level flight, with an impressive top speed of 69mph
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I can't believe I never posted a picture of her with her new eyes and wig =O She still needs a type4 or obitsu, though.
I know, i am obsessed with swifts and swallows LOL LOL.But with there being fewer of them around this year and the crap weather, opportunities have been few and far between.
On another note,is my camera knackered ?.On 1 or 2 of todays pics when looked at on the camera monitor half the pic was ok and the other half was flashing black.Like it was an old negative ?, If i zoomed in a little the flashing black stopped,and the pics have downloaded to my computer ok.This has never happened before today,any ideas anyone ?.Thanks.
Callum Brae, Canberra.
Swift Parrots breed in Tasmania, but fly to the mainland to feed outside the breeding season. Sadly they are becoming endangered through predation by Sugar Gliders in Tasmania.
Joining the ranks of industrial equipment rusting into oblivion on CCTs property, this old crane frames BUGX 2000 as the the crew swiftly moves out of the shops to begin a perilous day of switching
A common swift (Apus apus) that I photographed by some nesting boxes one month ago.
It was really cool to have them flying right above my head in a really high speed. Their maximum horizontal flying speed is 111.6 km/h (69.3 mph).
Except when nesting, swifts spend their lives in the air, living on the insects caught in flight. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing. Some individuals go 10 months without landing
It's the first time I've managed to get some okay photos of them, but I have to try some more next year to get even better ones.
Now most of them are on their way back to Equatorial and Sub-Equatorial Africa for the winter.
Swifts form pairs that may couple for years, and often return to the same nesting site and partner year after year, repairing degradation suffered in their 40-week migratory absence.
Their summer breeding range runs from Portugal and Ireland in the West across to China and Siberia in the East. They breed as far south as Northern Africa (in Morocco and Algeria), with a presence in the Middle East in Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Near East across Turkey, and the whole of Europe and most of sub-Arctic Russia.
(Tårnseiler in Norwegian)
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While walking along the trail we came to this area of the river where the water was moving pretty swiftly. Across the river, back about 20 or 30 feet there a couple of people fishing. I also like the image as it has some monolith rock formations in the composition. The Spring thaw provided awesome water flow in the park while we were there. I like how the river picks up the flow pace a bit here.
Merced River
Yosemite National Park, CA
As its name suggests, the swift fox is a speedy and agile native of North American grasslands, with top speeds exceeding 30 mph.
Slight of build, the swift fox is roughly the size of a house cat, measuring between 12 and 16 inches tall and weighing a mere 5 to 7 pounds.
Primarily a nocturnal species, this individual was spotted during the day in north-central Colorado.
Credit: Ryan Moehring / USFWS
Common swift, Fortezza Medicea in Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Mauersegler, Fortezza Medicea in Siena, Toskana, Italien. Dort brüten sie zu Hunderten in der Mauer und sind von den Parkplätzen gut zu fotografieren.
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Apus apus
I'm riding the trailing SD40-2 on train 909. A few minutes earlier we had heard train 910 with 772 on the point clear at Swift. The radio crackled "switches lined and locked main to main" and we are rolling right along at the authorized 40mph as I lean out for a shot of our meet. Fun times back in the early 80's