common swift

Martinet noir - Apus apus - Common Swift

I kept trying all summer for Swift shots. This was one of my best.

I am making the most of their brief season

Head-on

Perfect arc

Swift by name; swift by nature

I think yesterday was the first time I've got a recognizable and sort of sharp shot of a Common Swift in flight. I obviously need lots more practice ... and luck, and probably some skills I'll never achieve ... before I can get shots like those I've seen others of you post on BF, but I was happy...

Hundreds over the various lakes

More about now.

another common swift from yesterday, I was hoping to get some alpine swifts too, but they didn't show up so far.

Common Swift

My next attempts were on Common swifts I was being distracted by through my home office window. Not a smart move to have the computer facing the window with the feeders and a view of the whole city outside, and that day there were swifts swooping about as well. They did swoop much closer, but...

I hope to get some catching up done, both at work and on BF, on Wednesday when it's forecast to be cloudy. But today I did at least catch up on editing photos. So here are some I promised Delia I would post (hopefully she's now feeling up to browsing BF as well). These three are a result of my...

Common swift

Common Swift in Turin. They were everywhere.

A very blustery day at Minsmere, the insects were staying low, so the Swifts were much easier to photograph