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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 46
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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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.
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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
Image Taken on 12 Jul 2010
at 17:53 Image of day on 26 Aug 2010
Swallows remain a rarity this year, seen as the odd bird perhaps
a few times a week. This one chose an overcast day to go chasing
after an (invisible) insect overhead. The bland sky doesn't
provide the reference points to montage accurately, so we sort of
guess/try and make it look nice. We expect reality would spread
them out more horizontally but you get a feel for the twisting &
turning. The tail and the 'pins' are spread much wider than we
normally see.
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Ref: 20100826_df1_20100712_1753_006-0011 swallow in flight hunting overhead 1-6 of 7 (arbitrary montage at about 7fps))(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Sep 2010
at 12:15 Image of day on 24 Oct 2010
How do the insects get taken in the first place?
The speck top right is an insect from the frame with the bird
image nearest it. The left bird image is the same bird about
150mS earlier but the insect was out of the panning camera's
frame and there are no other references so we put it somewhere
'pretty' and probably much too close!
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Ref: 20101024_df1_20100902_1215_323+324 swallow in flight pursuing insect 1+2 of 2 (montage left bird positioned for compactness)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Aug 2015
at 15:15 Image of day on 27 Oct 2015
An unusual view (for us) of a Swallow showing the beautiful shimmer
from the top of the wings.
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Ref: 20151027_df4_20150826_1515_039+040 swallow in flight showing top of wing 1-2 of 2 (close spaced montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 10 Jul 2005
An adult female swallow quartering the sky over the meadow.
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Ref: 20050710_d60_03486 swallow in flight with good wing feather detail 2005jun23_18-00-58(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Sep 2014
at 14:18 Image of day on 04 Dec 2014
"Eat this!".
Recently fledged juvenile Swallows perch on tree branches or cables,
to be fed by the adults without them even landing
The claws of the parent (right) are unusually visible as his
beak goes completely into the juveniles gape.
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Ref: 20141204_df2_20140922_1418_612 swallow juvenile on cable being fed by adult in flight (adults claws visible) 5 of 8 (crop)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Sep 2014
at 13:53 Image of day on 02 Dec 2014
Recently fledged juvenile Swallows perch on tree branches or cables
to be fed by the adults without them even landing
Here you see the whole feed taking less than a second. The order is
2 3
1
4 5
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Ref: 20141202_df2_20140922_1353_262-266 swallow juvenile on cable being fed by adult in flight 1-5 of 7 (montage @ 7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Sep 2014
at 14:00 Image of day on 04 Dec 2014
Recently fledged juvenile Swallows perch on tree branches or cables,
to be fed by the adults without them even landing
This is a left to right montage. The bird lower right was
disappointed this time, but the parents were surprisingly
even-handed overall.
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Ref: 20141204_df2_20140922_1400_486+488+490 swallow juvenile on cable being fed by adult in flight 3+5+7 of 8 (montage alternate frames @7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Sep 2014
at 13:49 Image of day on 02 Dec 2014
Recently fledged juvenile Swallows perch on tree branches or cables,
to be fed by the adults without them even landing
Here the adult in flight has delivered a beakful of insects to the
perched juvenile, but a lucky one escaped and can be seen flying away.
View the montage as pairs of birds left to right.
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Ref: 20141202_df2_20140922_1349_171-173 swallow juvenile on cable being fed by adult in flight with a fly escaping 4-6 of 6 (mirrored montage @7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Sep 2014
at 13:54 Image of day on 03 Dec 2014
Recently fledged juvenile Swallows perch on tree branches or cables,
to be fed by the adults without them even landing
In this instance the adult visited both of 2 juveniles next to each
other on the wire, delivering part of his load to each bird all in about 3 seconds.
Start bottom right and follow clockwise. The 2 perched birds are shown at the moment
that each was fed, and the bird in flight circled round to feed the bird on the left before
flying back the way it came (top right).
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Ref: 20141203_df2_20140922_1354_302-323 swallow juveniles on cable being fed in sequence by adult in flight 01+02+06+10+17+22 of 22 (montage lower right clockwise)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Aug 2007
at 11:27 Image of day on 20 Sep 2007
A new family of swallows are being fed on the wires. This
youngster was just coming in to land.
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Ref: 20070920_d01_20070827_1127_121 swallow landing on wires (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Aug 2008
at 11:51 Image of day on 03 Sep 2008
You don't often see the dark top when in flight.
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Ref: 20080903_dc1_20080817_1151_002 swallow swooping down from wire showing top view (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
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