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FTT's Blackpool Swift 570 worked between North Pier and Poulton on a running evening. Here seen at Poulton. Blackpool Bus 100 3 July 2021
From 2003 until 2011 Suzuki sold the Swift+ in Canada. It's one of the many derivatives of the Daewoo Kalos. This model doesn't have anything in common with Suzuki's own Swift models.
May sound like an exotic location but actually just a little slice of land amid an industrial estate known as Swift Valley Park. Rugby, Warwickshire.
The first generation of the Swift started life in Europe in 1983 as Suzuki SA310. It was built in this form until a facelift in 1986. In 1988 it was replaced by the second generation Swift.
Yet another Australian native parrot. This bird is also endangered due to habitat loss.
Photos taken at Healesville Sanctuary, one of the 3 great zoos belonging to the Melbourne Zoo complex. Healesville is about 60 km east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Yet another Australian native parrot. This bird is critically endangered due to habitat loss.
Swift Parrot, Lathamus discolor
The swift parrot is a threatened species, largely due to the loss of its habitat.
he swift parrot occurs in south-eastern Australia. It is a migratory bird which only breeds in Tasmania and over winters on mainland Australia. The breeding range is largely restricted to the east of Tasmania within the range of the blue gum Eucalyptus globulus.
Swift parrots are commonly observed in the Hobart area feeding on flowers of introduced eucalypts, particularly pink flowering gum. When they are feeding in small groups on flowers, they chatter quietly to themselves. Large feeding flocks also occur. These are noisy affairs with birds squabbling and chasing each other in and out of the trees.
The swift parrot is 23-25 cm long, bigger than a budgie but smaller than a rosella. Streamlined, for rapid flight, it is green with red on the throat, chin and forehead. It also has red patches on its shoulders and under the wings. It has a blue crown and cheeks, blue on its wings and a long pointed tail. It can be readily identified in flight by its bright red underwing patches.
Its call is a 'kik-kik-kik'.
The swift parrot usually arrives in Tasmania in August. Nest sites in eastern Tasmania are usually located near the coast in dry forests on upper slopes and ridge tops. They make their nests inside a hollow tree branch or trunk in very old or dead trees, which can take hundreds of years to form.
It is not unusual to find more than one pair nesting close to each other. Nest sites may be re-used but not necessarily in successive years. The use of a particular nest site depends on the availability of food in that area.
After the breeding season, in February and March, the entire population flies north, dispersing throughout Victoria and NSW.
The Swift Parrot migrates to the mainland every autumn to winter mostly in the nectar-rich box-ironbark forests and woodlands of Victoria and New South Wales.Like other migratory species, swift parrots form into flocks prior to migrating. Some of these can be quite large consisting of up to 500 birds. It appears they break up into small flocks of 10-20 birds to cross Bass Strait during the day.
Because of clearing of more than 85% of these preferred wintering habitats, and continuing clearing of 500-1000 ha of its breeding habitat for commercial woodchipping every year, the breeding population of the Swift Parrot has declined markedly in the last decade. Many individuals also die after colliding with windows, tennis court fences and other structures.
It now consists of fewer than 1300 breeding pairs and is thought to be decreasing by more than 1% every year.
Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville, Victoria
This is the female of the other swift fox I posted. It had been raining and snowing the morning we were there and found it rather cute that her whiskers were slicked into a mustache. View it large you will see what I mean.
Sorry I haven't been a very good Flickr citizen of late, but between my hip and the sciatica, sitting for any length of time has been rather excruciating at best. I will be visiting your photos just not as quickly as I usually do.
Yesterday's scanning session, amongst other places, took me back to 1994 Malta. There cannot be a UK bus enthusiast out there who hasn't seen or heard of the legendary vehicles the island once relied upon for its public transport system. The vast majority of those in operation during the late '80s and 1990s were sourced from the UK .. as the island is right hand drive. Seldom were chassis left as manufactured, most being 'customised' in one way or another using typical Maltese ingenuity and engineering prowess. These facts ensured any visiting enthusiast seldom found two identiacal buses ... even ones from the same batch in Britain.
Here a cosmetically re-styled, and not unattractive ex London AEC Swift rounds the Triton fountain at Valletta bus station with much clacking from it's ex Leyland National 510 engine.
This immature Swift has been banging on the nest box to try to displace the resident adults. Shown here, it bumps its head, rights itself, flies away and returns for another go...
I had taken the 135mm f/1.8 lens with me to try to get photos of swallows feeding inside the barn. That allowed ridiculously fast shutter speed, but the crop was severe. Upscaled with Topaz Gigapixel.
FTT's Blackpool Swift 570 worked between North Pier and Poulton on a running evening. Interior view at North Pier Blackpool Bus 100 3 July 2021
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este blend es de una de las canciones de taylor swift, una bellisima, bellisima cancion con la que me identifico muchisimo, por que habla de las cosas que pasan cuando tienes 15 y a mi me han pasado y no dudo que me vuelvan a suceder, pero uno tiene que salir adelante, y les quiero comentar que ya entre a clases(pero de tarde (it sucks)) y en las mañanas tengo que hacer mi servicio social (trabajo sin paga ¬¬) asi que en promedio tengo un total de 3 horas libres al dia, menos mal que es solo un semestre, asi que solamente los vere los fines de semana :'(
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taken at Lenape Park - with my new Nikon D300 - I am finally getting the hang of using the camera for 'in flight' capture. These guys (swifts) are darn quick.
At last finally seen these birds today after a while waiting and in the same place as last year too but thankfully a lot lower than last year but just a fast............so from the minute i spotted them i was on a mission but not mission impossible like last year lol practice throughout the year paid off..
The setwings came and disappeared quickly this year - I can't find any around the yard now. This one was posing on one of my sticks in the late afternoon.
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New York, NY - Taylor Swift leaves the gym in NYC looking confident as she shows off her long legs wearing pinstriped cutoff shorts and a long sleeve shirt, with a cutout in the back.
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London Bus Company's Greenline AEC Swift SMA8 (JPF108K) loads up at North Weald, ready to run a 724 short as far as Epping Forest, Wake Arms on Sunday 24th February 2019 at the Epping Ongar Railway's Greenline Bus Event
Taylor Swift fans flock to Downtown East in Minneapolis for the first of two shows on her "The Eras Tour".
I visited Glastonbury on Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd June 2023 to capture some of the bus action transporting festival goers to the annual event. Of course, I was instantly attracted to the Bristol VRs and Olympians operated by Chepstow Classic Buses, but there were plenty of other interesting buses to photograph as well!
Taken at Wicken Fen.
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Tommy, a new temporary resident, in his room at the Swift Mansion. Tommy was just released from jail and looks forward to a new beginning. Right now he has this big, impressive quarters all to himself, and he enjoys a beautiful view looking over the balcony outside his window
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This historic mansion, constructed at 4500 S. Michigan Avenue in 1892, was my favorite stop on today's Open House Chicago adventure. It is currently home of the Inner City Youth and Adult Foundation, which provides support and transitional housing to individuals who have a troubled past and are trying to make changes to better themselves. More info: www.innercityyouthchicago.org
"The empty buildings were gutted by fires in 1971 and in 1973. The latter blaze, fueled by 70 years' worth of animal fat, burned for three weeks. Afterward, owners hired a company to demolish what was left, but after breaking three wrecking balls on the massive brick structures, Hearne Wrecking and Lumber admitted defeat.."
After the plant closed in 1971, the place was heaven for graffiti taggers, a plot of urban wilderness routinely explored by teenagers and photographers... however in the next few years, it may change that.
~ source article "Swift Changes" - Ft Worth Weekly
~ History of Stockyards and Swift meat-packing complex