distrustful dinosaursimagine you're a bug flying around minding your own business and this is the last thing you see 🐝😱🪶
Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ@distrustful_dinos I can never tell swifts from swallows. I'd be gobbled down going "Which wa…"
@sinabhfuil hahaha (this one was a swift)
@distrustful_dinos Which are the swoopy ones?
@sinabhfuil This is a good guide someone sent me a little while back: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/how-identify-swifts-swallows-sand-martins-and-house-martins
How to identify swifts, swallows, sand martins and house martins | The Wildlife Trusts
Learn how to identify swifts, swallows and martins. These birds are all summer visitors to the UK. Here's how you can find the difference between a swift and a swallow or work out what kind of martin you could have spotted!
Katzentratschen@distrustful_dinos @sinabhfuil That's a handy guide. Here's a video of flying swifts as a sound sample. They're screaming, not chattering and squeaking like swallows.
Sonntagssegler
Bugspriet@distrustful_dinos @sinabhfuil finally I understand the name of that band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehfiQd7lcPY
THE HOUSEMARTINS - CARAVAN OF LOVE
Ferdinand M.@distrustful_dinos Awesome capture 🤩
Todos Locos@distrustful_dinos What a great shot!
Noah Doersing 🐦🎨🌿@distrustful_dinos Holy crap, what a shot!
maniabel@distrustful_dinos
Extraordinary! How did you do that? Can you say something about the genesis of the photo? Thx!
Extraordinary! How did you do that? Can you say something about the genesis of the photo? Thx!
@maniabel Taken from my balcony — I spend a lot of time out there trying to track the swifts as they swoop past. I have a Sony 200-600 6.3, which has a close focus limiter (2-10 meters), couple that with the fastest autofocusing camera you can get and that’ll make it possible. I don’t understand why more lenses don’t have close focus limiters, they’re really profoundly useful and it’s difficult to imagine a technical limitation.
@distrustful_dinos Thank you very much! I have a balcony, and there are swifts too. All I'm missing is the camera lens combination.
Regardless of the technology, this breathtaking photo requires super-fast eye-hand coordination and a lot of patience. Thank you very much for sharing!
Regardless of the technology, this breathtaking photo requires super-fast eye-hand coordination and a lot of patience. Thank you very much for sharing!
@maniabel @distrustful_dinos Thank you for asking and thanks for the answer. There are swifts nesting right above our balcony. Now I'm tempted to aim for better shots, especially in flight. One from last year:
@katzentratschen @distrustful_dinos Here I only have pigeons and seagulls...
@maniabel @katzentratschen Pigeons and gulls are my favorites!
@katzentratschen @maniabel That’s an amazing shot, really great spot!
@distrustful_dinos @maniabel Thanks. But I've got neither skill nor patience for a shot like yours. Usually I just enjoy watching them for hours instead of taking photos.
@katzentratschen @maniabel Sounds great, I can’t think of many better ways to spend some time
Franck Mée@distrustful_dinos @maniabel The weirdest thing is the focus customization in Tamron Lens Utility. It lets you freely set the MINIMUM focus distance and some very advanced focusing like preset distance, A-B transitions for video, MF limit between two points, but whatever you do, the maximum distance in autofocus always remains firmly set to infinity. So frustrating!
Ellie (please install drivers)@distrustful_dinos me when I fucking GET you
✿ floby 💉😷💨@distrustful_dinos it's doing kind of jazz hands
apophis@distrustful_dinos what's the deal with the little tentacle things in its mouth?
@apophis honestly I don’t know but I bet it has something to do with keeping hold of bugs they catch!
@distrustful_dinos @apophis Or maybe some insect or former injury? I've seen lots of juvenile and adult swifts in close proximity while they were in rehab. But I've never noticed something similar around their beaks.
@katzentratschen @apophis Hmm, yea I’m not sure, could be an injury, part of an insect, or maybe a stray feather facing the wrong way? This was at 1/5000th of a second and there’s still a bit of motion blur, just incredible how fast they move
FolksVelo@FolksVelo beautiful!
Budgegeria 🦜@distrustful_dinos Smile for the camera
Salzkin@distrustful_dinos you are such a good Photographer. Never forget that. #🏳️⚧️ #transrightsarehumanrights #tranagender #transflag #transstickers
Jo Dusepo 
جوهانا دوسپو@distrustful_dinos wow! An incredible picture!
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