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1973 AEC Swift 6 Litre diesel Great Yarmouth Transport operated a number of AEC Swifts with locally built ECW bodies,
The ECW factory in Lowestoft built only 22 bodies on the rear-engined Swift chassis, all of them dual-door 11m vehicles for the two municipal undertakings on its doorstep. Ten went to Lowestoft Corporation, while 85 was one of 12 for Great Yarmouth Transport
with WEX 685M having been a regular rally attendee for many years. Now in the care of the The Eastern Counties Bus Preservation Group,
These swifts where swarming in the sunset. I parked myself on a little hill with high grass and lot's of insects flying around. I didn't take long for the swifts to fly over me , passing even my minimum focus distance. I could even here their wings flapping.
At 17" tall, Sgt. Swift is ready for the wild blue environs.
Constructed around a vintage 1945 military surplus canteen.
dan jones
San Diego, Ca USA
"A bird best identified by silhouette, the smudge-gray Chimney Swift nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch insects. Its tiny body, curving wings, and stiff, shallow wingbeats give it a flight style as distinctive as its fluid, chattering call. This enigmatic little bird spends almost its entire life airborne. When it lands, it can’t perch—it clings to vertical walls inside chimneys or in hollow trees or caves. This species has suffered sharp declines as chimneys fall into disuse across the continent." Cornell
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They run very fast over the ground between the leaf litter looking for food.
Photo: Jean
YJ09FHX is a Bova Futura FHD127 C53Ft purchased new by Reays of Wigton in April 2009. It joined the Barrhead based Swift Coaches fleet in January 2016.
Weeks with no Flickring, apologies. Back now.
Spent a quiet but frenetic hour on my garden seat with numbers of swifts mostly either too high or too fast , but a number of shots looked okay. the keeper rate I'll keep quiet about.
They have been here a few days, but this was the first time I've seen them as a group, and had a chance to get a shot.
I used an Olympus dot sight for these, which makes it easier to follow them as they dart around.
The Pacific Swift is a 111 ft, Canadian square topsail schooner looking like a pirate ship. She was built in 1986 by the Sail and Life Training Society to provide 5- to 10-day sail training programs for young people and day sails for S.A.L.T.S. members around Vancouver Island and along the coast of British Columbia.
The Pacific Swift has also completed four offshore voyages, some of more than a year in duration. Her offshore travels have taken her to Australia and Europe, to remote communities on Easter and Pitcairn Island, and to many other far-flung ports of call. Taken at Port Townsend's 2018 Wooden Boat Festival,
Some swifts have been looking into the eaves of our house recently. I just wish they would slow down!
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Swift spider (Nyssus coloripes), missing a couple of legs. Still a very rapid spider! South of Rockingham, Western Australia
How unafraid this little visitor is - he's usually the first to a tray of foodstuffs put out to augment food supplies in frosty weather, but having said that today's first arrival wasn't the robin, it was a gull - who swiftly was discouraged by a rap on the window. Gulls robbing feed for small birds I'm not inclined to allow - gulls have enough capacity to ride out hard spells and can always forage along the salt shoreline so they get short shrift here if I see them robbing the bird dish.