Well, true to its name, swifts are fast, agile hunters. They occupy the bug hunting niche, they are sort of daytime bats except they use their sight instead of a bat's sonar. Watching them hunt as the daylight wanes is always amazing. Trying to capture their movement on camera (short of a multi thousand tele-objective) is extremely hard. Here are a few shots I tried with my Canon D80 and Nikkor 18-135 lens. Some of them are a little blurry, but they capture the fighter-plane dynamics nicely.
These pictures were taken during a visit to the lovely Behramkale (Western Turkey, Aegean coast), also home to the ruins of the Ancient Greek city of Assoss. This city was an outpost established by the settlers of Lesbos.
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| Looking for prey |
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| Moving in |
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| Against the vast blue |
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| Some light play |
