Swallows in flight, + 1 nest shot.

It was extremely windy today so the swallows were alot slower today as they faced the wind, but it was still hard to get decent shots.

The nest I found under a small bridge/walkway.

Very hard to catch these fast moving birds in flight but #2 is a nice shot and i like the pic of the nest, did you use a flash on this?

I tried using the cameras built-in flash, and also took some shots without. I think this was one without the flash, but it has been fiddled with in Photoshop.

as pete said very fast bird when they swoop best try and catch them when they are
against the wind as i did at minsmere first swallow flight shot no2 best
cheers
jason

I've tried to get swallows flying.. I haven't had much luck

Good series.

I was doing this ysterday and would have had soe nice shots had it not been for the dying light. I was shooting with a 70-200mm. It must have been hard holding that camera with the 400mm.

These can be very fast birds. I noticed that many seem to take the same flight paths and even then it was very difficult getting them in frame for long.

My vote is on the second shot. Very nice.