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With guest speakers from:
Nature London
Birds Canada
📸 Taylor Swift photos used with permission from: James Hind
#chimneyswift #swifts #podcast #wildlife
#Inktober Day 10: Sweep
The #ChimneySwift is airborne for most of its life. When it lands, it can’t perch, but clings to vertical surfaces like inside chimneys.
Drawn with an H pencil, an ink dip pen, and a brush.
#Drawtober #Artober #DrawingPrompts #Drawlloween #Inktober2025 #Birdtober #birdart
#inktober day 10 - Sweep
Did you know the Chimney Swift got it's name because they nest inside chimneys, and chimney sweeps could not brush away the soot until the chicks had left.
#inktober2025 #Illustration #chimneyswift #chimneysweep #birb #birds #birdaday #inkwash
State of the Birds 2025
This year the #ChimneySwift is an #OrangeAlert #TippingPoint species which includes 37 species.
Immediate #conservation is needed for birds that have experienced the steepest population losses.
#ChimneySwifts
www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/tipping...
This #ChimneySwift is exiting my frame as quickly as it entered. Quick little birds!
June 2025 in Illinois (Pingree Grove FP) #birds #birdnerd #birdphotography #birdsinflight
Two chimney swifts soaring around overhead, with a partially cloudy, blue sky above. Their bodies look exactly like a cigar, with long tapered wings.
A chimney swift soaring around overhead, with a partially cloudy, blue sky above. Its body looks exactly like a cigar, with long tapered wings.
Two chimney swifts soaring around overhead, with a partially cloudy, blue sky above. Their bodies look exactly like a cigar, with long tapered wings.
These photos I took back in May show why Chimney Swifts are referred to as "flying cigars!" #birds #birding #ChimneySwift #HamOnt
A couple of high flying insectivore species over Parkdale...
Barn Swallow and Chimney Swift.
#kindness #birds #barnswallow #chimneyswift #parkdale
Dinner ready?... Uh-oh... trouble!
This Merlin came into the area thinking it could get a quick meal as it sometimes does... but this time the Chimney Swifts mobbed it instantly.
It left as fast as it could looking behind as it exited.
#birds #merlin #chimneyswift #parkdale
Chimney Swift
These birds are in the skies all day long but I've been a little focused on the insects in my wildlife gardens... lol.
#birds #chimneyswift
Chimney Swifts over Parkdale.
Taken with my 40mm lens while I was out doing some street photography. It's a pretty good capture for a setup more geared for people and dogs than flying cigars. The last image is cropped from the second.
#birds #chimneyswift
The Chimney Swifts have been flying very low for the last few days over Parkdale, Toronto. Take a few hundred photos and keep a handful.
#birds #chimneyswift
The Chimney Swifts have been flying very low for the last few days over Parkdale, Toronto. Take a few hundred photos and keep a handful.
#birds #chimneyswift
The Chimney Swifts have been flying very low for the last few days over Parkdale, Toronto. Take a few hundred photos and keep a handful.
#birds #chimneyswift
The Chimney Swifts have been flying very low for the last few days over Parkdale, Toronto. Take a few hundred photos and keep a handful.
#birds #chimneyswift
Not the sharpest photos I took of these birds today, but the most interesting. I've been photographing Chimney Swifts for years and I've never had the fortune of taking a photo when they're flying so close in formation.
These 2 photos were taken a split second apart.
#birds #chimneyswift #parkdale
Chimney swifts at Stony Brook Village
#chimneyswift #Bird #Birds #birding #BirdsOfTwitter #Birdwatching #Nature #Wildlife #StonyBrook #Audubon #audubonsociety
@nature.org @aba.org @mybirdcards.com @abcbirds.bsky.social @nycbirdalliance.bsky.social @audubon.org
#ChimneySwift photo dump. I’ve been practicing bird in flight with these buggers around the Inn. I see why they call them swifts.
#Bird #AnimalBodyPart #AnimalWildlife #Blue #ClearSky #Flying #GroupOfAnimals #LowAngleView #MidAir
A few of the many low flying Chimney Swifts in the neighbourhood...
#birds #parkdale #birdsofontario #chimneyswift
The Flying Cigar
A few Chimney Swift photos over the neighbourhood today - mostly directly above Queen St W.
This morning I counted twenty flying together in one small area of the sky.
#birds #parkdale #birdsofontario #chimneyswift
The Flying Cigar
A few Chimney Swift photos over the neighbourhood today - mostly directly above Queen St W.
This morning I counted twenty flying together in one small area of the sky.
#birds #parkdale #birdsofontario #chimneyswift
The Flying Cigar
A few Chimney Swift photos over the neighbourhood today - mostly directly above Queen St W.
This morning I counted twenty flying together in one small area of the sky.
#birds #parkdale #birdsofontario #chimneyswift
A couple of the smaller species of birds around Parkdale today...
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
and
Chimney Swift
#birds #parkdale #birdsofontario #rubycrownedkinglet #chimneyswift
The first Chimney Swift close-up of the year.
Many more in the coming days. I'm seeing more every day.
#birds #parkdale #chimneyswift
The Chimney Swifts are back!
Little dots with my 50mm lens. I'll head back out with my 600mm and try to get some closer images in the coming days.
#birds #parkdale #chimneyswift
A stubby, dark little bird with long narrow wings (with some ragged feathers) soars high in a summer sky.
#DailyBird 🤖
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica), 6th August 2023
es: Vencejo de Chimenea, fr: Martinet Ramoneur
IUCN: Vulnerable
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 5% crop, 1/2000s, ISO 1250
#Birds #ChimneySwift #CHSW #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers #DescribeYourImages
#chimneyswift #chimneyswiftinc #swift #birds #birding #vulnerablespecies
#comic #cartoon #natureofbusiness #businessofnature #cladeandgenus #cladeandgenusltd
A watercolor and ink drawing by me. Big in the foreground is a chimney swift in dynamic flight. Its long tapered wings are fully extended as it banks towards us. Much like their given name the swifts are sooty brown with a pale throat and belly. In the background is a minimalist drawing in ink of a chimney with thirteen swifts spiralling around it. To the upper right corner of the page is a final swift in the background. Making the total of awesome aerial insectivores on my one page fifteen in total
#ArtAdventCalendar
I’m co-chair of Bird Friendly City Kitchener, a @naturecanada.bsky.social initiative
We are in the process of voting for our official city bird
The Chimney Swift is one of our candidates 🪶
#birds #birdart #art #scienceart #ornithology #watercolor #chimneyswift #illustration
