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Image Taken on 23 May 2009 at 13:36    Image of day on 12 Jun 2009

This is a House Martin in flight, the least frequent of our three flycatchers which includes Swallows and Swifts.


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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2008 at 16:07    Image of day on 02 Jul 2008

This is a House Martin in flight, the least frequent of our three flycatchers which includes Swallows and Swifts.


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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2015 at 15:15    Image of day on 27 Oct 2015

Our first House Martin sighting this year. The spacing is a third of the true flight speed at about 5fps.


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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2010 at 17:54    Image of day on 12 Oct 2010

During a poor year for flycatchers a brief sunny period after rain brought out a few Swallows, 1 swift and this House Martin which has lifted its head to snatch the insect you can just see as an elongated smudge half a birds length ahead of it's beak.


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Image Taken on 14 May 2008 at 15:28    Image of day on 26 May 2008

At last got some decent images of House Martins. We have selected one that again illustrates birds flying with their heads 'still', in this case still horizontal, with the body, wings & tail all sideways (See Yellowhammer from 22 May 2008).


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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2010 at 17:54    Image of day on 12 Oct 2010

Another view of a House Martin banking really hard in flight.


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Image Taken on 31 Mar 2006 at 09:08    Image of day on 06 Apr 2006

A dangerous unused 4-pot chimney stack the Jackdaws used to nest in was removed during re-roofing. Cramming themselves into the space above some (unsuccessful) House Martin nests seems to be the solution for this pair. Talk about crowded!


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