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swallows and martins
Significant migration of swallows and martins today. Many barn swallows and several house and sand martins, as well as crag martins, regularly joined by good numbers of alpine swifts. Unfortunately the light was rather poor (we had a lot of snow over the weekend).
On the picture there's mainly barn swallows, a few sand martins and one house martin.
Habitat
Hydraulic dam on the Isère river
Location
Saint-Egrève, Isère, France
Date taken
03 April 2022
Scientific name
Hirundo rustica, Riparia riparia, Delichon urbicum
Equipment used
canon EOS 90D + canon 400 mm 1:5.6
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What a fabulous sight! A great capture of this group, JJ.
 
Excellent group capture of those Swallows and Martins JJ, you did well under poor light conditions. Tfs.
 
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A cracking mixed group shot, lighting and capture JJ, lovely job and many tfs.
 
I would them recommend a journey next week. Pretty cold here. A wonderful capture of so many beautiful birds together.
 
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WOW, very impressive group capture of these swallows and martins. Great focus, dof, stop-action, and subjects. A real pleasure to see JJ!
 

Media information

Category
Britain & Europe
Added by
bievreJJ
Date added
View count
775
Comment count
14

Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon EOS 90D
Aperture
ƒ/7.1
Focal length
400.0 mm
Exposure time
1/800 second(s)
ISO
1600
Filename
swallows 2.jpg
File size
4.6 MB
Date taken
Sun, 03 April 2022 8:42 AM
Dimensions
4107px x 2375px

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