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Welcome swallow
- woom
- Media item
- Oct 11, 2014
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 2
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

Sat on a rusty rail for me.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Sep 10, 2014
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 16
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Welcome Swallow

It is that time of the year, the swallows are starting to build their nests.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Aug 11, 2014
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 15
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Get off this is my perch

The second Welcome Swallow tried to land on the perch already taken.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Jun 28, 2014
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 14
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Good morning starshine

A welcome swallow welcomes the new day
- akapenguins
- Media item
- Feb 17, 2014
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 1
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

Taken 100 mtrs from shore of Southern Ocean.
- Tiger1
- Media item
- Dec 10, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 5
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Dec 1, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 10
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

Caught this one on top of a road sign.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Nov 28, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 17
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Juvenile Welcome Swallow

This youngster set itself up nicely for this photograph.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Nov 10, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 14
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Welcome Swallow

This Swallow was collecting nesting material and showing off at the same time Have been over the local wetlands this arvo and they are like a dust bowl, no birds whatsoever, hopefully better luck at low tide here at Wellington Point 6am tomorrow morning Ken
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Nov 8, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 6
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Waiting to be fed.

These two youngsters were just waiting to be fed by their parents.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Nov 3, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 16
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Welcome Swallow

Photo taken from Hart's Creek bird hide on the edge of NZ's 5th largest lake which has a great abundance of birdlife. Got my first sighting of the Australasian Great Crested Grebe, about a dozen of which were out on the lake but rather too distant for good shots. Meanwhile, two welcome...
- C Chad
- Media item
- Oct 11, 2013
- hart\'s creek lake ellesmere new zealand welcome swallow
- Comments: 8
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Welcome Swallow

Having a rest on the sea wall down at the Point. The background is out of focus volcanic rock exposed at low tide
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Oct 6, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 7
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

The Swallows are starting to gather mud to build their nests.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Aug 27, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 15
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Stumped

Welcome Swallow having a brief rest on an old tree stump at the Wetlands
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Aug 21, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 4
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

Managed to get another flying photograph of the fast flying Swallow.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Jul 17, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 17
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Welcome Swallow

At last I have been able to get a reasonable photograph of a flying Welcome Swallow. Strong winds helped me, making them hover in one place.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Jul 8, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 15
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Welcome Swallow

It was taken at Herdsman Lake, Perth, Western Australia
- Rippy
- Media item
- May 13, 2013
- bird small welcome swallow
- Comments: 4
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Mar 23, 2013
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 9
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

These guys are much harder to get a shot of in flight , small , very fast and agile Still working on it !!
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Dec 24, 2012
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 3
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow
- Ken Doy
- Media item
- Nov 13, 2012
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 1
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

Taken at the Western Treatment Plant.
- bfra
- Media item
- Sep 18, 2012
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 1
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
'Come any closer.....

Hi all, I have been seeing the Welcome Swallows darting across my back paddock feasting on all the small insects and have stood waiting to try and get a flight shot lol....then this little one decided to take a break and landed on the wire fence just a little way away....I was thinking it might...
- Nora
- Media item
- Aug 8, 2012
- hirundo neoxena welcome swallow
- Comments: 13
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow juvenile

Perched on a dock beside the Murray River
- ibarker
- Media item
- Jun 25, 2012
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 1
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Welcome Swallow

These swallows are self intoduced into NZ in the last century and are now seen just about everywhere.
- Rookery
- Media item
- Jun 14, 2012
- welcome swallow
- Comments: 11
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica

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