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These Common Swifts are always on the wing and amazingly fast flyers, very unpredictable too, while they catch insects 24/7
These birds never land, unless they return to their nest (holes, nest boxes)
An endless exercise in frustration to try to get the AF to lock on properly: too small, too fast (speeds of over 200km/h have been measured) and often too far away - they usually fly at 50m or higher. The dark plumage also means getting any sort of detail is a definite challenge.
This is therefore without a doubt the hardest native bird to capture in flight, despite having become relatively abundant here due to a successful campaign to have them settle in nestboxes all over Groningen. They stay only briefly, from late April to the end of July
Dutch: Gierzwaluw (Apus Apus)
Ondanks de naam GEEN familie van de zwaluw (NOCH van de gier LOL)
One of many Swifts from today at Stodmarsh in between the rain showers. The fastest birds in level flight, with an impressive top speed of 69mph
[Apus apus]
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1973 AEC Swift 6 Litre diesel Great Yarmouth Transport operated a number of AEC Swifts with locally built ECW bodies,
The ECW factory in Lowestoft built only 22 bodies on the rear-engined Swift chassis, all of them dual-door 11m vehicles for the two municipal undertakings on its doorstep. Ten went to Lowestoft Corporation, while 85 was one of 12 for Great Yarmouth Transport
with WEX 685M having been a regular rally attendee for many years. Now in the care of the The Eastern Counties Bus Preservation Group,
Thousands of vaux swifts fly around this chimney for about an hour and then all dive in and only happens for about 4 weeks a year!!! Hundreds of people were watching!! Sometimes they made super psychedelic patterns in the sky! Amazing to see! Thousands of birds flying in synchronicity??????!!!!!!!!!!!!! A person about 8 feet away got pooped on........ ;D
Wiki: During fall migration one of the highlights for birders is the large groups of Vaux’s swifts that communally roost in chimneys along their way. This fantastic show that the birds put on may consist of a few birds or many thousands. Agate Hall at the University of Oregon and Chapman School in Portland are two of the largest known sites in the world housing thousands of swifts and drawing many onlookers. Vaux’s swifts are linked with old growth forest and need large hollow snags for nesting. The species is likely declining and migration is a great time to survey the population.
It takes a lot of work with Setwings to get them to pose like this. They can be very skittish till they're used to you. And you have to have just-the-right-light. My Georgia yard after a two-day photo session ;-)
While walking along the trail we came to this area of the river where the water was moving pretty swiftly. Across the river, back about 20 or 30 feet there a couple of people fishing. I also like the image as it has some monolith rock formations in the composition. The Spring thaw provided awesome water flow in the park while we were there. I like how the river picks up the flow pace a bit here.
Merced River
Yosemite National Park, CA
I can't believe I never posted a picture of her with her new eyes and wig =O She still needs a type4 or obitsu, though.
I know, i am obsessed with swifts and swallows LOL LOL.But with there being fewer of them around this year and the crap weather, opportunities have been few and far between.
On another note,is my camera knackered ?.On 1 or 2 of todays pics when looked at on the camera monitor half the pic was ok and the other half was flashing black.Like it was an old negative ?, If i zoomed in a little the flashing black stopped,and the pics have downloaded to my computer ok.This has never happened before today,any ideas anyone ?.Thanks.
Callum Brae, Canberra.
Swift Parrots breed in Tasmania, but fly to the mainland to feed outside the breeding season. Sadly they are becoming endangered through predation by Sugar Gliders in Tasmania.
Joining the ranks of industrial equipment rusting into oblivion on CCTs property, this old crane frames BUGX 2000 as the the crew swiftly moves out of the shops to begin a perilous day of switching
nailed it but bloody hard ,1 out of 50 is not a bad average i suppose ,no wonder they call them swifts
Common swift, Fortezza Medicea in Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Mauersegler, Fortezza Medicea in Siena, Toskana, Italien. Dort brüten sie zu Hunderten in der Mauer und sind von den Parkplätzen gut zu fotografieren.
Rondone
Apus apus
I'm riding the trailing SD40-2 on train 909. A few minutes earlier we had heard train 910 with 772 on the point clear at Swift. The radio crackled "switches lined and locked main to main" and we are rolling right along at the authorized 40mph as I lean out for a shot of our meet. Fun times back in the early 80's
Swift spider (Nyssus coloripes), missing a couple of legs. Still a very rapid spider! South of Rockingham, Western Australia
I immediately fell in love with the beautiul town of Swifts Creek and our visit here is all too short! If you ever find yourself in this part of the world I highly recommend a visit.
Swifts Creek is Located on the Great Alpine Road in the beautiful Tambo Valley between Omeo and Ensay, 379 kilometres east of Melbourne. The area was originally settled by Europeans in the gold rushes of the mid-1800s.
Well it wasn't cold frozen there....just a long exposure...but I bet it's frozen now :(
It really is called the Swift River though...really :)
"A bird best identified by silhouette, the smudge-gray Chimney Swift nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch insects. Its tiny body, curving wings, and stiff, shallow wingbeats give it a flight style as distinctive as its fluid, chattering call. This enigmatic little bird spends almost its entire life airborne. When it lands, it can’t perch—it clings to vertical walls inside chimneys or in hollow trees or caves. This species has suffered sharp declines as chimneys fall into disuse across the continent." Cornell