Welcome Swallow

We generally distinguish a swallow from the shape of its wings and the two points of its tail - but they are busy birds, and at speed they appear are a dark grey blur. When one stops for a moment, a different picture emerges.

In flight, they remain elusive: high speed, and lots of blur. I have called this one a Welcome Swallow, rather than a Barn Swallow, because the wing linings appear grey rather than white and I cannot clearly make out a black band around the chestnut patch on the face.

  

This is my photographic record of birds of South-Eastern Australia

1 Birds of Prey (Diurnal)
Black-shouldered Kite; Brown Falcon; Brown Goshawk; Little Eagle, Nankeen Kestral (female); Nankeen Kestral (male); Peregrine Falcon; Spotted Harrier; White Breasted Sea Eagle, Wedge-tailed Eagle (Munyunga), Whistling Kite

2 Birds of Prey (Nocturnal)
Barking Owl, Tawny Frogmouth

3  Waterbirds
Australasian Grebe; Australian Shelduck; Australian Shoveler; Australian White Ibis; Australian Wood Duck (Yerrinbool); Black Swan; Darter; Dusky Moorhen; Eurasian Coot; Great Cormorant; Great Egret; Grey Teal; Hardhead; Hoary-headed Grebe; Latham’s Snipe; Little Black Cormorant; Little Pied Cormorant;  Pacific Black Duck (Nowra); Pacific Heron; Pink-eared Duck; Plumed Egret; Purple Swamphen; Sacred Ibis; Straw-necked Ibis; White‑faced Heron;  White‑necked Heron; Masked Lapwing; Pelicans, Silver Gull; Spoonbill

4 Parrots and Relatives: 
Crimson Rosella (Galindan); Eastern Rosella (Bundeluk); Galah; Gang‑gang Cockatoo; King Parrots (Gatandjan); Little Corella; Rainbow Lorikeet (Perka), Red-rumped Parrot; Sulphur‑crested Cockatoo; Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo; 

5 Kingfishers and other non-songbirds: 
Australian Owlet-nightjar; Brush Cuckoo; Common Koel; Common Bronzewing; Crested Pigeon; Dollarbird; Fan‑tailed Cuckoo; Horsfield's Bronze‑Cuckoo; Laughing Kookaburra; Pallid Cuckoo; Sacred Kingfisher; Shining Bronze‑cuckoo; Southern Boobook; Stubble Quail

6 Honeyeaters: 
Brown‑headed Honeyeater; Crescent Honeyeater; Eastern Spinebill;  Eastern Yellow Robin; Fairy Martin; Leaden Flycatcher; Magpie-lark; Noisy Friar Bird; New Holland Honeyeater; Noisy Miner; Red Wattlebird; White-eared Honeyeater; Rufous Whistler; Rufous Fantail; Tree Martin; Satin Flycatcher; Scarlet Robin; White‑plumed Honeyeater; Yellow-faced Honeyeater

7 Flycatchers and similar species: 
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Grey Fantail, GreyShrike-thrush; Magpie-lark; Welcome Swallow; Willie Wagtail

8 Thornbills, Finches and similar species: Buff‑rumped Thornbill; Brown Thornbill; Diamond Firetail; Double‑barred Finch; European Goldfinch; Flame Robin; House Sparrow; Red‑browed Finch; Scarlet Robin; Spotted Pardalote; Striated Pardalote; Striated Thornbill; Superb Fairy-wren; White-browed Scrubwren; Weebill; White-throated Gerygone; Yellow‑rumped Thornbill

9 Other, smaller birds:  
Australasian  Pipit; Australian Reed-warbler; Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike; Brown Songlark; Common Myna; Common Blackbird; Common Starling; Dusky Woodswallow; Mistletoebird; Olive‑backed Oriole;  Rufous Songlark; Skylark; White-throated Treecreeper; White‑-winged Triller

10  Other, larger birds: 
Australian Brush Turkey (Djera), Australian Raven; Australian Magpie; Emu, Grey Butcherbird; Little Raven; PiedCurrawong; Satin Bowerbird, Superb Lyrebird, White-winged Chough

11 Exotic, out of area: 
Fairy Penguin