Welcome Swallows on wing and perch

More efforts to capture Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena) on the wing not helped lately by days of gusting winds and showers.

Fewer birds using previously favoured perch in pool on lower stretch of wetland at Mungalla Station.

One sharp in-flight image (with target perch cloned out).

Full-frame image.

Catching them on the wing

Most birds look in their element on the wing. Pity it's so hard to capture them in the air. Distant looks at Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena) at Orient Station yesterday don't do them justice.

Did catch an Australian Pratincole (Stiltia isabella) speeding past.

And another catching up with grasshopper.

Then again, sometimes catching a bird on the wing isn't good enough. Thus, one of the Striated Pardalotes (Pardalotus striatus) had to go.

And sometimes on the wing means something different, as with these Black-shouldered Kites (Elanus axillaris).

Swallows make visitors welcome

Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena) happily share 'their' Dungeness wharf with visitors who  keep their distance.

Stand around long enough and the distance decreases.

But it's hard on decrepit knees crawling even closer. 
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