Teo and White-rumped Swifts

My friend Teo is, to put it nicely, built for comfort and not speed and on top of it blames me for getting him interested in birds and photography, which could be the reason that he is divorced but that he has not confided. However, his photography is great and he comes up with some great shots.

Those who bother to read these meanderings will have seen his recent photos of Eleonora's Falcons near Coín (he says he's fed up of seeing them but still gets some good shots).

However, his latest interesting shots are of a pair of White-rumped Swifts, also seen yesterday 11 July in the same area. Here are a couple of the best ones where the bird looks very black, the shape of the curved white of the rump can be easily seen, as can the long, almost needle-shaped tail with only a small fork (as I commented. in an earlier blog on the subject) and the total lack of white visible on the chin, which I find to be not uncommon when watching them against the sky.