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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 46
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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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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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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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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Image Taken on 30 Jun 2018
at 12:58 Image of day on 19 Aug 2018
The evidence is there from the camera timestamps, and it is amazing that the
Swallow can twist this much in the 140mS between each frame. No wonder it is so
hard to follow them with a camera.
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Ref: 20180819_df3_20180630_1258_360-362 swallow twisting in flight 1-3 of 3 (impression montage @ 7 fps)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 26 Jun 2005
A dozen swallows including adults and fledglings spent an hour in
the evening light swooping over the trees and ponds collecting
insects.
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Image of day on 14 Jun 2005
Swallows parents catch insects and feed their young while in flight.
This montage shows a feeding sequence in 6 images (viewed top left
to right, then bottom left to right) which took about 2 seconds in real time.
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Ref: 20050614_d60_03034-03039 swallows transferring food in flight montage 2005jun08_12-27-08(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Jun 2011
at 16:01 Image of day on 16 Jul 2011
Swifts are the most regular fly catching bird at the moment -
here a portrait with the wings catching the light nicely.
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Image Taken on 08 Jun 2011
at 13:14 Image of day on 16 Jul 2011
And here a more conventional view showing the sickle shaped wings.
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Image Taken on 31 May 2010
at 16:03 Image of day on 08 Jul 2010
BBC Springwatch tells us all flycatchers are late this year.
For us the number of Swifts has soared and the usual
good show of Swallows plus the odd Martin has reduced to
the odd flyover. So we make the most of the Swifts this year.
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Image Taken on 11 May 2010
at 16:57 Image of day on 14 Jun 2010
The swifts are outnumbering the swallows this year. This shot
shows the interesting stepped grey of the under-feather markings
and the wonderful long primary feathers.
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Ref: 20100614_df1_20100511_1657_589 swift in flight (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Jun 2008
at 12:58 Image of day on 25 Jun 2008
Swifts and swallows are making intermittent appearances.
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Image Taken on 06 Jul 2006
at 17:56 Image of day on 19 Jul 2006
Photographing birds in flight is hard, and flycatchers doubly so.
So getting even a half-decent image is a minor triumph.
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Image Taken on 05 Jun 2006
at 16:28 Image of day on 13 Jun 2006
This year not many Swallows but a few swifts of which this one
is an example. The BBC Springwatch website and paperwork
packs include Swallows, Swifts and House Martins from our portfolio.
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Ref: 20060613_d10_20060605_1628_486 swift in flight(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Jul 2016
at 17:50 Image of day on 17 Aug 2016
Alarmingly few Swifts, Swallows and Martin so far this year.
Here is a passing Swift.
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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2015
at 15:16 Image of day on 27 Oct 2015
A Swift in flight climbing gracefully.
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Ref: 20151027_df4_20150826_1516_092-097 swift in flight 1-6 of 6 (close montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 31 May 2010
at 16:05 Image of day on 08 Jul 2010
We are trying to catch the moment of an insect about to go into
a flycatchers beak. During this attempt we got this unusual
sequence of what we think is a swallow reaching way up
to catch an insect. Probably about 200mS between images
with arbitrary positions.
We guess that the insect was hidden by the right wing of the first image,
and inside the beak by the second!
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Ref: 20100708_df1_20100531_1605_088-090 swift in flight arching back & opening beak to catch insect (q) 1-3 of 3 (arbitrary montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Jun 2011
at 13:37 Image of day on 29 Jul 2011
Swifts are normally photographed as sickle shapes, but they
have a full range of wing movements, here caught near the top
of its wing stroke.
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Ref: 20110729_df1_20110622_1337_290 swift in flight at top of wing stroke(r+mb id@432).jpg
Image Taken on 05 May 2017
at 17:52 Image of day on 27 Jun 2017
A Swift catching an insect - beak open next to last image from the left and the
tiny speck of life it consumed is just in front of the open beak.
These at about 7fps so slightly less than 1 second of action here.
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Ref: 20170627_df3_20170505_1752_159-164 swift in flight catching insect 2-7 of 7 (impression montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
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