I spent the day up at the Skagit Wildlife Area yesterday.  We had a rare day of sunshine, so I thought that it would be a good opportunity to catch the swallows on the wing.  I mostly used a shutter speed of 1/3200 of a second.  Even then I was not freezing motion.  If you want to see more of the photographs from the day, click here: April 21, 2017

My main objective for the day was to get the swallows dipping into the water, but I could not resist getting them flying overhead as well: 

Tree Swallow I only partially succeeded in getting images of them flying over and into the water.  

Tree Swallow

Tree Swallow

Juvenile Tree Swallow Tree Swallow Where I totally failed was getting images of them dipping into the water.  Every time I got an image, it was out of focus.  

Tree Swallow I also tried to get images of them diving into the water.  I was partially successful:

Tree Swallow diving Tree Swallow diving Lastly, I got just a few images of some Barn Swallows.  They were even more difficult to capture than the Tree Swallows.  I did not think that this was possible.

Barn Swallow