pacific swallow

Pacific Swallow

Pacific Swallow, Singapore

Pacific Swallow Singapore

This swallow was perched on a wire outside my beach hut

I was birding along the park and saw the Pacific Swallow in a very nice pose that seemed to be asking me to capture it. It was actually a full body shot,but i wanted to try a cropped version of this small bird to show more details of the face expressions with its mouth opened and the head...

Pacific Swallow giving the classic pose Kuala Selangor

Its a difficult subject this month, only for the fact that we all know there are going to be some terrific images entering this months comp. For my efforts this Pacific Swallow gave me a slightly different take on things. I like the view of the tongue and the fact that he seems to be shouting...

Another from Kuala Selengor. A preening pose

This Swallow took time out to shout at me to stop taking pictures...... I got this one frame of him in full voice..... Malaysia

Iam being framedlol.. 3:-) BELIEVE IT OR NOT the day 1st January..finished my work at 1pm and closed shop for the daylol.went home(2nd) Subang were my wife was recovering from major sugery on 24thDec..since the place was near to the Medical...

This is one of the most common swallow found here, it is almost everywhere and anywhere.

It is at the darkest of times that very often we see humanity at its best and it has indeed been true this past week. A big thank you to the members of BF for all the PMs and e-mails to check we were OK. There is very much a spirit of collective national grief in Taiwan. There is a huge amount...

At least I think this juvenile Pacific Swallow was proud to be my "Super Model" and letting me to take few nice shots.

A truly beautiful bird which, I feel, deserves more attention than it gets.

A shot of a Pacific Swallow in the rain on the electric cable just outside my study window this morning. Pacific Swallow (14cm): A small blue, red and buff swallow. Upperparts steel blue with chestnut forehead and throat. Underparts a dull white. Slightly elongated tail without streamers...

This is the closest that I have ever gotten so far on wildlife. The swallow seems human-friendly, however it flied away when I was closer than 1.5m in a few attempts. Nevertheless, this distance is good enough for me. Model: DSLR-A300 Sigma APO 70-300mm ISO: 400 Exposure: 1/250 sec Aperture...

A shot of one of the Pacific Swallows that like to sit on the electric cable just outside my study window and hawk insects. Small(14cm) blue, red and buff swallow. Upperparts steel blue with chestnut forehead and throat. Underparts a dull white. Slightly elongated tail without streamers...

Pacific Swallow This bird is local and not to be mistaken for the very similar looking migrant barn swallows this time of the year that have a black necklace. This shot was taken in the golden light of a setting sun. The bird was on a perch in an ex tin mining pool some 20m off hence the 2.0II...

Each trying to gain possess of the perfect perch.

This Pacific Swallow is about to make an emergency landing on this thin pole.