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This attractive looking male Orange Swift (Triodia sylvina) was resting on a piece of cardboard in the conservatory waiting for dusk. I couldn’t resist such opportunity. It turned out to be a patient and cooperative model. Bath, Somerset, England.
Orange swift (Triodia sulvina) moth resting on a wall.
Krótkowąs sylwina (Triodia sylvina) odpoczywający na ścianie.
The Swift Fox is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It also lives in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada.
I think this is a Globe GC-1 Swift manufactured in the 1940's. It is located at the Legacy Flight Museum in Rexburg, Idaho and seems to have a cartoon character grin.
This attractive looking male Orange Swift (Triodia sylvina) was resting on a piece of cardboard in the conservatory waiting for dusk. I couldn’t resist such opportunity. It turned out to be a patient and cooperative model. Bath, Somerset, England.
We started last Sunday's adventure at one of our favorite places. The Hawksbill Greenway in Luray. I got another shot at a photo of the Swifts. They were coming to this exposed little mud beach to get dabs of mud for nest building I suppose? I sure was wishing for the Big Bertha lens though as I needed just that bit more reach for these shots. Still, I think it's an improvement over the one I put up awhile back! OK... I am exhausted from caring for the grandbaby all day yesterday and all last night. Seems she is in the habit of waking around 3 AM for a few hours of fun and play! Have a great day everyone.......and I wish you all a happy Nap should one be needed! LOL
Fresh off the kill of a mouse I caught him dead on in my sights. The red on his beak is from the tasty morsel he just devoured.
I also got him with mouse in hand (for a later post)
Going by its size it is a male Red Tail Hawk as the females are much larger.. but he will do!
The arrival in the distance of the male Swift Fox (Vulpes fulva) to the den site captures the attention of the female working on the den. The den was located on the prairie landscape in southeastern Alberta, Canada.
28 June, 2009.
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With VIA 186 tucked away in the siding at Pogamasing, CPKC 119 swiftly departs Sheahan crossing the Spanish River and a swift beneath the bridge. In whitewater terminology, a Class I rapid is the lowest level of difficulty and a Class VI rapid is the highest, where swifts are sections of moving water, but not quite big enough to be a classified as a rapid. Swifts tend to happen where the river narrows or the riverbed gets shallow. If you look closely, there is a "chute" with moderate whitewater beneath the bridge where both of these things happen. The whitewater in a swift is created by miniature waves from the fast moving water, unlike in a Class I or Class II rapid where the whitewater is generally from water recirculating over a rock.
The small hamlet of Sheahan can also be seen between the train and the river in the distance. A couple small camps (one cabin is visible) are all that are left from what was at one point a thriving logging community - MP 23.26 Nemegos Sub.
I probably only get a handful of swifts near home and not much opportunity to try photographing them, which is always a challenge at the best of times.
The last time I was at Fairburn Ings in West Yorkshire, there were so many around I had to accept the challenge of trying to get a photograph. This one is probably my best effort.
This attractive looking male Orange Swift (Triodia sylvina) was resting on a piece of cardboard in the conservatory waiting for dusk. I couldn’t resist such opportunity. It turned out to be a patient and cooperative model. Bath, Somerset, England.
Peak autumn color comes to the banks of the Swift River, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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I hope you have a great weekend, and that you are enjoying the autumn, wherever in the world you might be.
Loads of swifts screaming around Bangor Seacliff Road this evening. A real feeling of summer at long last.
One thing that I really love is the returning of the Swift at the start of May, The fastest bird in level flight at speeds just under 70 MPH and they very rarely come off the wing - Eating, Mating, sleeping and bathing on the move - This one has a Bolus of insects it is collecting for its young
One of several Orange Swifts that visited our downstairs shower room, favouring the toilet roll as the best place to rest!
The Orange Swift (Hepialus sylvina) inhabits gardens, woodland and rough grassland, roadside verges, moorland and other wild places. The males are smaller and more brightly coloured than the females. It flies later in the year than the other swifts, from July to September. Along with with other members of the genus, the larvae feed on the roots of a variety of plants. It is quite common in Britain.
With overcast skies, the grass being cut around Wilstone res banks and a storm approaching I hadn't expected much. I had planned to photograph bees on the banks but the mowers put paid to that. What it did do was displace millions of insects which in turn bought in the Swift. The skies were alive with thousands of them all enjoying their feed. Despite the high numbers, it seems some individuals favoured particular patches of the sky. These two individuals, one with a little damage on its underside and the other with a scruffy wing I repeatedly managed to get shots of.