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Vaux's Swift
Chaetura vauxi
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So jealous of mon@rch's Chimney Swift. So I vowed to take advantage of a local phenomenon. Congregating, migrating, roosting Vaux's Swifts, kissing cousins to Chimney Swifts. I thought maybe there might be a still swift opportunity there. A still swift.....well........
There are other pictures on flickr that render the scene. At dusk, the swifts congregate together to roost in a small chimney at a local school here in Healdsburg in the California wine country. Thousands of them. A blurringly fast river of brown and black shapes being shot into the chimney. Hundreds a minute.
They were so fast, and it was so dark, I just focused the camera somewhere near the chimney and flashed like crazy for 3 minutes. Another blind squirrel hunting for acorns. This was the only shot that wasn't blurred.
Life bird. :-)
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Focal length: 500 mm
fStop: 4
ISO: 3200
Shutter Speed: 1/200
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Healdsburg, CA - Rio Lindo Adventist Academy
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Sep 9, 2007
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