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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.
N801TJ - Boeing B-737-4B7 - Swift Air
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 24.892 - built in 1990 for US Air -
in service for Swift Air since 08/2006
Orange swift (Triodia sulvina) moth resting on a wall.
Krótkowąs sylwina (Triodia sylvina) odpoczywający na ścianie.
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
Record shot of this magnificent bird seen on the North Face of Gibraltar. Spectacular and distinctive large, dark brown swift with white belly and throat patch. Noticeably larger than Common Swift and Blyth’s Swift, but with slower wingbeats and a "lazier" and wider soaring flight. Breeds colonially in cliff faces, mountains, and larger buildings. Migratory in parts of its range. Call is an extremely shrill, chittering scream. eBird
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.
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.
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.
Melting snow from the south-facing flanks of the Italian Alps funnels into the Rio Sesia and makes a swift, cold rush to eventually join the Po River southwest of Milan. In the background, the shoulders of Monte Rosa push through morning clouds while the summit remains shrouded. I visited this location in hopes of seeing the sunrise clouds burn brightly over the summit but instead enjoyed the cool air of morning and the sound of hurried water.
The visit to Alagna Valsesia and the surrounding mountains was a highlight of our family's trip to northern Italy last summer. Even better, we were able to meet up with a Flickr contact and his family and join them for a beautiful meal and some wine after a day in the hills (Marco, it was such a pleasure!). Given the recent coronavirus outbreak, I believe Marco, his family, and many others who are uninfected are now under quarantine per government mandate in an attempt to halt the spread of the illness. Many people are now suffering from fear, uncertainty, and sometimes loss. My hope is that this, too, shall pass, and with a minimum of additional pain.
Stay well!
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.
De gierzwaluw is een mysterieuze zomergast. Rond 30 april zijn de eerste gierzwaluwen terug uit Afrika. Jonge gierzwaluwen zullen zeker 2 jaar of langer in de lucht blijven, voordat ze weer voet op de bodem van een nest zetten. In de laatste 2 weken van juli kun je op mooie avonden genieten van spectaculaire vluchten van de jonge vogels. Met luid gegier scheren ze dan laag over de huizen en tussen de huizen door. Begin Augustus zijn alle gierzwaluwen alweer vertrokken.
Canon EOS R5
RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
ƒ/7.1 500.0 mm 1/4000 640
The swift is a medium-sized aerial bird, which is a superb flyer. Sleeping, eating, bathing and even mating on the wing, swifts rarely touch the ground. They are also the fastest birds in level flight, with an impressive top speed of 69mph.
Swifts are plain sooty brown, with a white throat, but in flight against the sky they appear black. They have long, scythe-like wings and a short, forked tail. Swifts are summer visitors, breeding across the UK, but are most numerous in the south and east. Spending their winters in Africa, swifts migrate 3,400 miles twice a year, stopping off to refuel in places like Portugal and France along the way.
After a long flight back from their summer in Africa, swifts have one thing on their minds - to mate. Swifts pair for life, returning to the same site each year for a little nest renovation before laying and incubating their eggs. They like to live in houses and churches, squeezing through tiny gaps to nest inside roofs. But as more old buildings are renovated and gaps in soffits closed up, swift nest sites are fast disappearing. This, in part, has resulted in swifts being added to the Red list in the 2021 UK Conservation Status Report.
Red is the highest conservation priority, with species on this list needing urgent action. Species on this list, such as swifts, are globally threatened, with big declines in breeding populations and ranges. That’s why swifts urgently need our help. By installing a swift brick in a wall, or putting up a nestbox, you could give a swift a place to rest and raise a family.
Early morning i found two baby swift. They are already fed, in 15-20 days they will be ready to fly.
One of many attempts to catch a Swift in flight. Great to watch, tough to capture. Taken at Abberton Reservoir.
In my part of the Yorkshire Pennines Swifts are one of the shortest-staying summer visitors. They arrive in May after most other migrants have already arrived, and they are usually gone by the middle of August, again before most migrants have departed. This year my last Pennine sighting was 20 August and I thought that would be my last for the year, but on 9 September there were at least half a dozen Swifts flying around the Spurn peninsula. Late Swifts are always worth checking as this is the time when rare Pallid Swifts occasionally wander here from southern Europe. These are difficult to identify, especially if the light is poor so I really only photographed this bird to check it wasn't a Pallid Swift. Alas, not a Pallid, but I was pleasantly surprised by the photo so thought I'd upload it.
Another interesting thing about Swifts is that once they leave their nest, their feet won't touch the ground for two or three years until they nest themselves. By this time the young Swift will have made two or three return journeys to sub-Saharan Africa. They eat, drink, sleep and even mate on the wing, only landing when they nest. The oldest known Swift was ringed as a nestling in Switzerland and was caught back there 21 years later, by which time it was estimated to have flown perhaps 3 million miles.
The scientific name Apus apus comes from the Greek " a pous" meaning without foot. Swift legs are so small that it was once believed that they did not have any feet.