Bank swallow or Sand Martin banking in flight

Here is a Bank Swallow (Sand Martin) banking in flight; certainly a little more challenging than Puffins in flight. We had some great fun trying to get these Ariel acrobats in the frame during my recent Deluxe Puffins Galore workshops.

Bank Swallow

During my annual Deluxe Atlantic Puffins and so much more workshops, we are often visited by flocks of up to four species of swallows. We stay in a newly renovated lighthouse on a small island in the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve where there are no trees, so I found a piece of driftwood and wedged it between some rocks on the beach to make a perch. It didn’t take long for this Bank Swallow to make an appearance - smile.