Needle-tailed Swifts - Finally managed to grab the camera whilst one flock of 30+ birds was passing through.
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This one has 'needle tails' - and you can make out the dark feet!
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Same bird as above.
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A strange looking bird in the photograph. In active moult: old 3 outermost primaries, all other primaries are new. Secondaries; all being replaced. Why the breast pattern? Who knows!
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Many of them simply didn't look like Neele-tailed; more like Alpine in shape.
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Nice to get a few pics of them.
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