{"id":1667,"date":"2010-07-04T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1667"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:39:22","slug":"swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Swifts are utterly amazing birds. They spend virtually their whole life on the wing, eating sleeping and mating while in flight. The distances they cover are astounding, with some estimates reaching 200,000km in a year. And of course that means they need to eat&#8230; up to 20,000 insects a day! The young may spend their first two to three years in the air. There are recordings of birds living to over 20 years, which gives a life-time flying distance of over 4,000,000km.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/swift_0207100051_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/swift_0207100056.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/swift_0207100057.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>You can often see them early in the evening circling in small groups. Their flight is fast, twisting, and often at a great height. Their boomerang wings and almost pure black plumage are very distinctive.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to see them nesting, The Black Rabbit has a <a href=\"http:\/\/theblackrabbitwarren.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nest-box Swift-cam<\/a> on his blog. Well worth a look.<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[1186],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-swift","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}