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N314XA - Boeing B-737-484 - Swift Air
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 25.314 - built in 1991 for Olympic Airways -
operated by Swift Air since 2018
They say this every single time when nature throws in a reminder of who's at the helm on spaceship Earth. In the news, in interviews, in talk shows. "Those in need will be helped in a swift an unbureaucratic manner." It's like a text snippet they take from their big box of snippets whenever they think it fits. This was no different after the flood in the Ahr valley and many other places, that devastated this area on the evening of July 14th, 2021, at the height of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, three years after the flood, this is what many streets that went under that summer evening, still look like today. It was the first time for me I visited the place, as in the first time at all, not just after the flood. I fully expected to find scars of the disaster everywhere, but not open wounds that barely even started healing. Especially not so many of them.
General cargo docked in the port of Saint-Nazaire
Close up on the port side
Général cargo à quai dans le port de Saint-Nazaire FRANCE
Gros plan sur le bastingage bâbord
IMO: 9741152
MMSI: 636017393
Call Sign: D5KR7
Flag: Liberia [LR]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo
Gross Tonnage: 11619
Deadweight: 12337 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 147m × 23m
Year Built: 2017
Status: Active
A crumpled looking tail, a dark face. Can't see the breast colour. I'm unsure wha this bird is - but I've never seen a swift with white splotches around its posterior. Or a dark faced Swallow. Is it an immature swallow? There were no other swifts evident at the time and I didn't hear any swift's screams.
So I'll guess it's a young swallow. Right/Wrong? If you know please comment with info?
Swift Creek is a tributary of the Suwannee near White Springs, Fl. It lives up to its name with fast moving water that at low levels traverses sets of rapids on its way to confluence.
Swift Transport Training Belfast Dennis Dart Plaxton Reg WJZ 1190 is seen Parked in Falcon Road this bus was New to London United as Reg LG02 FGK and Fleet Number DPS 662
Photographing swifts is so much fun. It does after a few hours result in a lot of deleting as well as aching arms and shoulders. As the sun drops exposure is a lot easier but the window of opportunity is small. The red glow in this bird was about 10 mins before I had to give up for the day due to fading light.
Taken and first posted in 2010 as a small image. Please support "swift-conservation.org" to ensure the future of these birds.
Taken on a sunny, windy day at RSPB Frampton Marsh, which does help 'hold' them in the air a little longer when they whiz past you!
Dewlish, Dorset.
The Swift is a medium-sized aerial bird, which is a superb flyer. Sleeping, eating, bathing and even mating on the wing (while flying), 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 curved wings and a 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. (RSPB).
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If you wait long enough they open their mouths. Which is strange considering their screaming when they buzz you.
Swift Current Falls gets its name for a good reason. This is not a place you want to fall into the water. It would be more than a bumpy ride down. The locations is one of the easiest places to get to however most don’t see it from this angle because they look at it from the bridge above. While it looks good from above I really like the walk down to look back up at the falls and the Mountain in the background. I missed sunrise at this location because I was shooting wildlife but I would love to come back and shoot it during sunrise.
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In Montell, Uvalde County. I'm not completely sure about the species ID, but think the swift setwing fits.
08-08-15_MG_5965 Was a nice surprise to find this one perched their numbers have been dropping rather fast this year for some reason.
A couple of record shots of Swift from 2013. Have tried hard over the years to get shots of these but they are so fast & difficult. They will be back soon but I do not see them in my part of the village, much too built up now
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. It became nearly extinct in the 1930s as a result of predator control programs, but was successfully reintroduced later. Currently, the conservation status of the species is considered by the IUCN as endangered.
I loved Tom Swift stories as a boy. That might suggest I was born in the early decades of the 20th century, but that's not the case. I'm pretty sure my Tom Swift books came from my 5th-grade book program in the mid-1960s. We would select the books we wanted, pay for them and then wait for them to arrive one at a time over the succeeding months.
Klipsan Beach, Washington.
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.
While tracking 1 I hit the trigger just as a second popped into view. Luck more than judgement here.
Taken in Princeton, BC in May 2016.
The Vaux's Swift is a hard bird to photograph. I was happy to see some flying very low down with hundreds of swallows in Princeton last month, the best I have ever seen this species.
In my efforts to get a at least a vaguely crisp panning shot of a swift over the last few weeks, I had collected quite a few shots of them doing their amazing acrobatics as they zoomed across the sky to catch an insect meal. They were inevitably photographed at varying heights and distances, so many were just too small in frame to carry as a photographic composition. I thought I might montage lots of the better shots together on a single frame, so here they all are, showing off all their twists and turns. If you peer closely, you can see one bird was caught by the shutter just as he/she opened their beak to swallow an insect.
Taken in the same meadow where the House Martins were hawking for insects at low level - much higher up was a Swift.
Since each image was small, I thought I'd try a composite.
One of my last shots from the Narrows in Zion National Park. The crowds really thin out the deeper you go into the Narrows. I think this was about 3 miles in from the start of the Narrows. Finding compositions in the Narrows is a lot fun. This shot is one of my favorite water flow shots I've taken. Nice water curves wrapping around the rocks really makes this my favorite image from the Narrows. We didn't finish the the Narrows until 6 or 7pm, so the light was a lot darker and cooler than some of my earlier shots.
Narrows
Zion National Park, Utah
I just posted my summer timelapse project online. youtu.be/AIdznH2bYwA