Swiftly, Crowned Crane secondary wing feathers
The swifts are little jet fighters of the bird world. Kayaking down the Cispus River, I gazed at dozens of Vaux Swifts flying above me along the river corridor. That is, when I wasn’t avoiding boulders and white water drops. These bird grow wing bones shaped differently than swallows which they otherwise sort of look like. It makes them look like fast jets and they fly like it. And they fly high and for up to 10 months without landing, drinking, feeding, molting, mating, and probably sleeping on the wing. I read on BBC Science Focus that during a lifetime, they can fly as far as to the moon and back seven times!.
I returned from the river and made this piece. The birds move and turn so quickly, they seem to just disappear all of a sudden, much like the Starship Enterprise when it goes into warp speed.