Lights ... Camera
... Take
____________
Sometimes ...
... not often
... that elements
all ... favor a
bird photographer ...
As is evident ...
... here
in this stand-out
performance by
this fabulous
... colorful pair
of swallows ...
A fleeting moment
... becomes
a memorable one...
Parent feeding young bird in flight . They meet repeatedly in mid air . Got the whole sequence of them flying towards each other and disengaging after feeding. Shot using 7fps . Lucky to have them unobstructed in this shot.
This is the first of 3 images.
The first and second are of the same bird, front and rear. Together with the third bird, which I take to be a juvenile, they were perched on a wire in company with Red-chested, Grey-rumped and Lesser Striped Swallows.
My problem is that I can not find much...
I was watching a pair of Red-rumped Swallows near where we live, cleaning out their nests and re-lining it with soft downy-thistle seed-heads. So house-proud but oh! so comfortable!
Another from my Southern holidays.
This is something Ive never done before, to crop a bird pic as a close-up. But this cutie was perched in the shade of a veranda on a window grille, rusty and with signs of plenty of swallows perched through the years (you know what I mean, ;)), so the setting...
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