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I think this dragonfly is a swift setwing. It was perched next to a "hurricane fence". In Montell, Uvalde County, Texas.
Taylor Swift
The 1989 World Tour
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville, TN
September 25, 2015
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The Kancamagus Highway is a scenic road between Lincoln and North Conway, New Hampshire. There are many pullouts along the way that give access to wonderful views of the White Mountains. This is a view of the Swift river, just off the road. Although most trees in this shot are evergreens, the few colourful trees along the river still give a nice impression of the fall colours in the area.
Each year these moths emerge in our back yard, with the first rain for the year. (Yay!! we had 20mm rain last night!!!) This year it (Just one so far) emerged on 26 April 2014.
Photo: Jean
~50mm
Taylor Swift
The 1989 World Tour
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville, TN
September 25, 2015
© Katelyn Prieboy/Low Lite Photography
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Definately not as many swifts or swallows around this year,i hope its only the weather thats keeping them away and not something more serious.
Swifts collecting mud from a puddle to build there nests, Old Sarum Airfield, Wiltshire, UK, 2023/05/01.
I saw this Swift recovery truck at the T. A. in W. Virginia. Must be a nice job driving all over the country picking up trucks. No real loading or unloading work here.
NEW YORK - MAY 03: Singer Taylor Swift attends the Costume Institute Gala Benefit to celebrate the opening of the "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 3, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images) Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift @ John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday, September 14, 2013.
Red Tour Setlist:
State of Grace
Holy Ground
Red
You Belong with Me
The Lucky One
Mean
22
Last Kiss
Everything Has Changed (with Ed Sheeran)
Begin Again
Sparks Fly
I Knew You Were Trouble
All Too Well
Love Story
Treacherous
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
I really enjoyed watching these superb birds flying over me, actively communicating between themselves, and performing stunning aerials. I noticed their white throats pumping as they fill it up with insects over time, which eventually can extend a lot. During a day they can catch thousands of small flies and other insects. In terms of flight, they can amaze you, with their manoeuvrability and extremely sharp angles. I read somewhere that they can eat, drink, mate and sleep in flight, with some of them not landing for as much as 10 months! Amazing
Swift - (Apus apus)
Taylor Swift performed at Scottrade Center on September 29, 2015. Haim and Vance Joy opened the show.
Photo by Dustin Winter.
OMG!! I love taylor swift she has some really good songs my top two favorites are Hey Stephen and Love Story!!
Following many years in Malta former London Transport AEC Swift SMS274 is now back in the UK and is seen here at Brooklands,
Georgia yard, straight off of camera
Swift setwings are one of the less common summer dragonflies that we have regularly in our yard. Once you get them used to you, they love to pose about as much as blue dashers! They continually forage from their perch and return to it, landing with their wings held high then immediately dropping them forward. The trick is to capture those pretty wings as they land.
Explore, Dec. 4, 2009 @ 456
During my lunch break I was told about a grounded Swift, near the electric fox fence on the grazing marsh.
Swifts are built for the air, spending their entire lives there, only touching down to build a nest. They spend the rest of their lives airborne.
The RSPB says: “Spends more time in flight than any other species and regularly sleeps on the wing at night when not nesting. Also feeds, drinks, gathers nest material and sometimes mates in flight.”
I went to the Wildside hide to have a look. At first I couldn't see anything but then glimpsed some flapping wings amongst the grass.
I scurried commando-style (not quite) out on to the marsh, trying not to disturb anything, and picked it up. It seemed dazed and weak, but I was amazed at how firmly it grasped my hand, with tiny, razor sharp little claws. I held my hand out to see if it would fly, but it just flopped onto the grass a couple of times. I could feel its tiny heart beating incredibly fast, probably from the stress of being on the ground. For such an aerial bird this stress would have been considerable. I decided it needed some care so took it back to the centre.
I looked online for some advice and found it at www.swift-conservation.org, the people who advised us about our Swift nest boxes that can be seen around the Observatory. They recommended putting it in a cardboard box on some paper towels, and leaving it in a cool, dark, quiet, safe place to recuperate.
I left it there for a couple of hours to calm down but its condition hadn’t changed much when I came back, and it seemed to be closing its eyes rather a lot. This was concerning as I’ve seen several birds in the past do this before they passed on.
One of our regular visitors, Martin, who also does moth trapping with us, was passing by so I asked him for any words of advice. I also asked him about the large tick I’d spotted at the back of the Swift’s neck. Martin, who works at the Natural History Museum, took out a test tube (no self-respecting entomologist is ever without one) and tried to coax the tick into the test tube.
Unsurprisingly, the tick was reluctant to be added to the collection, and scurried off around the Swift’s back. As we tried to nudge the tick off, the Swift became a lot more alert and started looking around. Slightly irritated at being disturbed from its doze in my hands, the Swift thought “Sod this!” and pushed itself out of my hands, took a couple of weak wing-beats, and was off to join its kind in the sky :-)
Besides a Roadliner (or two), the Knotty Bus fleet contained four AEC Swifts. Two were 10m ex Saint Helens dual door examples, the above 11m Marshall bodied bus came from Blackpool and the final one to be purchased, originally from London Country. OFR 983M was a dependable performer and almost indestructible even it it's body rattled like a skeleton having a dance in a biscuit tin. OFR carried standard Knotty 'bus' livery of black and white with pewter grey around the windows and a red relief stripe. It also carried here commemorative lettering celebrating five years of operation... by ten I'd had enough! The picture was taken at the Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster station on the occasion of the 1993 October bus rally were the Swift took turns on the shuttle service to Bewdley.
Taylor Swift
The RED Tour
April 20, 2013
Tampa Bay Times Forum (Amalie Arena)
Tampa, FL
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At sunset, Vaux's Swifts return from a day on the wing to roost in Portland, Oregon’s Chapman Elementary School chimney during their fall migration. In early fall, thousands of Vaux’s Swifts gather in the city as they prepare to migrate to Central America and Venezuela. Migrating swifts often use a chimney like this one as a place to sleep.
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The Old Swift meat-packing complex.
Hard to believe this 22 acre of ruin still stands a block from the active part of the Stockyards in Ft Worth, TX.
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 "Swift Changes" - Ft Worth Weekly
~ History of Stockyards and Swift meat-packing complex