Birds Common house martins (nishiiwa-tsubame)

[Kamoshika]

Correction: these are common house martins...not swallows. My confusion arose from the Japanese generic term for these types of birds, "tsubame."

It's swallow house martin (boy, these birds are fast) season and I happened to come across a good place to capture them taking sips out of the river. Here's my first try at this spot...hope to add to this thread.

I forgot to take off the extender (lots of noisy photos I tossed, and they were just too close and fast for the minimum focal length w/extender).

• Canon EOS R6m2
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
• 420.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 4000

 

[AKVet]

Looks great!

 

[MrSparks999]

Great picture

 

[Kamoshika]

Looks great!

Great picture

Thank you. I finally tried out the 40fps for, which seemed appropriate for these birds.

 

[Kamoshika]

Two more:

• Canon EOS R6m2
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 800

• Canon EOS R6m2
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 640

 

[Grahamk]

Nice shots. Swallows yet to arrive here this year, but shouldn’t be long.

 

[Kamoshika]

Nice shots. Swallows yet to arrive here this year, but shouldn’t be long.

Thanks you.