BETTER ALIVE THAN DEAD

The farmers have a saying ' where there is livestock there will be dead stock'. I picked up this Pallid Swift (Vencejo Pálido) that was clearly very dead to see really what the plumage was like as compared to seeing it in a book. It was beautiful and brown with the large white chin patch. Also note the tail shape. I am sorry that it was not alive but it did give me the opportunity to examine one closely. I have tried many times to spot these characteristics in fast flying ones but light, distance and speed seem to almost always win.