The violet-green swallow may not be the rarest bird in the world, but its colours sing when they catch the sunlight. Birder Brad Vissia, from West Kelowna, B.C., often observes them flocking on power lines, but only at a distance. He yearned to capture their sparkling, iridescent colours up close through his camera.
So when a violet-green swallow happened to land on a rock beside him, Vissia didn’t miss his chance.
B.C. birder Brad Vissia had a close encounter with a violet-green swallow in West Kelowna. (Courtesy of Brad Vissia)
In Vissia’s world, photographing the violet-green swallow was important enough to cut classes that day—or rather, take a drive in between classes at the middle-school where he teaches to Gellatly Bay near the yacht club to view and photograph avians….