Welcome Swallow on a boat
Welcome Swallow resting on a boat
Canon EOS R5 Mk II with a Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM Zoom [ISO 200, 500mm, f/8.0 and 1/500])
Walking along Narooma’s wharf one day, I noticed a couple of Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena) perched on the rail rope of a boat. The birds were not that concerned with people walking past so I took some photos. Later, I noticed them flying around under the wharf so they may have found a good space under there to roost. They would regularly launch to skim above the water, circling around before returning to the wharf.
Welcome Swallows migrate northwards in winter, although it is not a universal move to a northern region, rather, it is populations shifting northwards to warmer areas, relative to where they have come from. So, it is possible that the swallows around Narooma in winter, are different birds to those in summer. With the summer birds having flown northwards to a relatively warmer place, and the winter birds, having arrived from the south, that was becoming cooler in winter.
