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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 46
Image Taken on 06 Jun 2014
at 15:28 Image of day on 11 Aug 2014
The 100 juvenile starling (and a few adults) flying over the Oil-seed rape crop
and then diving down into it en-mass to feed.
 in flight while feeding in oil-seed rape crop (crop 2)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20140811_df2_20140606_1528_134 100 starlings (mostly juveniles) in flight while feeding in oil-seed rape crop (crop 2)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Aug 2008
at 11:51 Image of day on 03 Sep 2008
The swallows continue to delight, and this pair of consecutive
images at the start of a session show you top and bottom of
the bird.
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Ref: 20080903_dc1_20080817_1151_001 swallow about to swoop down from wire(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 22 Aug 2006
This montage of two images taken late morning 14 Aug 2003 shows
another image of swallows feeding in flight. The camera takes
just over 3 frames/sec so these are about .3 second apart (left
to right).
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Ref: 20060822_d10_00699+00700 swallow feeding young in flight (processed montage about 300ms apart)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Sep 2007
at 17:41 Image of day on 30 Sep 2007
Montage of about .75 seconds of a swallow passing food to it's
chick.
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Ref: 20070930_d01_20070904_1741_050_to_54 swallow feeding young in flight montage of 1 to 5 of 5(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Sep 2010
at 12:18 Image of day on 24 Oct 2010
Adult swallows sometimes feed their youngster on the wing.
They generally rise up facing each other to get the appropriate
beak alignment for just a moment.
 2 of 2 (crop @432)(r+mb id@432).jpg)
Ref: 20101024_df1_20100903_1218_031 swallow feeding youngster in flight (selected frames) 2 of 2 (crop @432)(r+mb id@432).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Jun 2008
at 13:02 Image of day on 25 Jun 2008
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Ref: 20080625_dc1_20080614_1302_215 swallow in flight(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Apr 2016
at 15:47 Image of day on 07 May 2016
The first Swallow of the year for us, 10 days earlier than last year.
 (crop 2)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20160507_df3_20160405_1547_067 swallow in flight (first sighting in 2016) (crop 2)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image of day on 28 Aug 2005
Swallow out collecting insects. They will be leaving soon for
a warmer continent and feed intensively before they go.
 2005aug21_12-06-04(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20050828_d60_05132 swallow in flight (full frame) 2005aug21_12-06-04(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 19 Jun 2009
at 17:09 Image of day on 17 Jul 2009
Swifts continue to delight us with a group of about 10 visiting
the area a few times many days. Here is the same bird in two
successive frames
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Ref: 20090717_db1_20090619_1709_094+095 swallow in flight (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Jul 2017
at 13:08 Image of day on 11 Sep 2017
The first three (right to left) frames from the above at the accurate spacing for 7 frames per second.
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Ref: 20170911_df3_20170727_1308_031-033 swallow in flight 01-03 of 10 (accurate montage @ 7fps)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Jul 2017
at 13:08 Image of day on 11 Sep 2017
A swallow flyby showing how these birds spend a lot of their flight time in
'streamlined' mode. All these positions in just over a second - their world
must go at a different speed to ours!
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Ref: 20170911_df3_20170727_1308_031-039 swallow in flight 01-09 of 10 (close spaced montage @ 7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Sep 2015
at 17:42 Image of day on 20 Nov 2015
The Swallows are now mostly simply passing over, rather than stopping for
a feed, as they make their way back to Africa.
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Ref: 20151120_df3_20150922_1742_090-095 swallow in flight 1-6 of 6 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image of day on 01 Jun 2005
Swallows and Swifts are being seen, but the conditions are
not right for good photos. So here is an image from last year.
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Ref: 20050601_d12_00605 swallow in flight 2004jun22_10-20-32(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 31 Aug 2005
Hope you like Swallows!
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Ref: 20050831_d60_04998 swallow in flight 2005aug20_14-35-16(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 03 Sep 2005
Last few sightings of swallows this year
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Ref: 20050903_d60_05420 swallow in flight 2005aug23_15-41-58(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 05 Jun 2005
Swallows and Swifts making passing visits and this
swallows obliged by flying low enough and in decent light
to get a sequence of which this is one.
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Ref: 20050605_d60_02826 swallow in flight 3 of 3 2005may31_17-53-26(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Jul 2009
at 19:09 Image of day on 04 Sep 2009
An accurate crop of a swallow taking an insect (assuming that the
insect didn't move much in the fraction of second of the birds
swoop at it). You can just make out the wings of the insect.
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Ref: 20090904_db1_20090724_1909_022+023 swallow in flight and insect it caught 1+2 of 3 accurate montage(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Sep 2013
at 14:09 Image of day on 20 Nov 2013
This Swallow made a single flyby recorded here. The spacing is
undoubtedly too close for the frame rate, but the bland sky
provides no reference points for alignment.
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Ref: 20131120_a77_20130913_1409_059+060+062 swallow in flight at 4 fps 2+3+5 of 5 (arbitrary montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 30 Jun 2018
at 10:06 Image of day on 19 Aug 2018
Our family of swallows has mostly settled on feeding the youngsters on the 11kV
cables just to our west. Two juvenile Swallows are on the cables, both hopeful
of a feed, but only the right hand side bird got fed this time
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Ref: 20180819_df3_20180630_1006_112+114+119 swallow in flight feeding 1 of 2 juveniles perched on 11kv cable 04+06+11 of 14 (montage over 1 second)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Sep 2010
at 12:59 Image of day on 23 Oct 2010
Swallow parents usually feed their youngsters by giving perching
juveniles a beakful of insects without landing themselves. With
one beak inside another it is always difficult to see the moment
of transfer, so from 2 different encounters first we see the
approach with the adult's beak overflowing with insects.
(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20101023_df1_20100902_1259_256 swallow in flight feeding juvenile perched on apple tree branch 4 of 9 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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