View allAll Photos Tagged swift
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.
Abantiades hydrographus
What a beautiful reveal of pink on its hind wings, when the moth opened its wings.
Similar moths, emerge from the ground at this time of the year to mate, lay their eggs and die! They have a very short life as a moth.
Photos: Jean
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.
Taylor Swift hat ihr Stilspiel in letzter Zeit definitiv aufgestockt und wir lieben jedes Stück davon! Taylor hatte schon immer einen einzigartigen Sinn für persönlichen Stil. Sie hat verschiedene Looks von schickem Country Chick über Rüschen Boho Babe bis hin zu adretten College Campus Cru...
coolideen.com/2018/08/10/wie-man-taylor-swifts-modernen-v...
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.
Taylor Swift with Orange Streaks. And red lips. and red nails. Edited on Picnik
One of my most popular pics!
MV Swift, built in 2020, able to take 300 passengers and seen on Lake Windermere, Cumbria, England, 2024.
www.windermere-lakecruises.co.uk/about-us/vessels/mv-swift
Press "L" to view large.
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
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 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
This is all I have to offer of the magnificent Swift this year. They're just about all gone now. Waiting for their return :) Thanks everyone, for comments etc.....I am not returning comments etc on others images as the house is still taking up my time. The kitchen is just about complete now, so my wifes happy. Cheers Gregg
Not easy to capture a photo of these guys as they are so fast and don't stay in one place for very long. I feel very lucky that they chose to nest at my place.
Taylor Swift
Fifteen
Fearless
www.frankysboombox.blogspot.com
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 :'(
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.
The swift is one of the last summer migrants to arrive in the UK and one of the first to leave. 'Screaming' calls reveal the presence of parties of swifts flying above the Kent Weald..
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..
Jonathan Swift.
Born-30 November 1667,Died – 19 October 1745.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Enjoy The Clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfQ992lh7Cg&index=1&list=...
Volvo Olympian/Alexander RH, RA218 is seen outside Clerys Department Store on a 22A service from Cabra to Drimnagh. August 1996
Car: Suzuki Swift GLS.
Date of first registration: 25th April 2002.
Registration region: Swansea.
Latest recorded mileage: 104,219 (MOT 17th September 2020).
Last V5 issued: 13th December 2016.
Date taken: 30th December 2020.
Album: Street Spots