[Tweeters] A new bird behavior discovery - for me

[Jim Betz via Tweeters]

Hi,

   I've gone to Channel Drive (near La Conner) several times this week.  
I was attempting to

get a picture of a swallow in flight and although a barely useful image 
it does show

something I didn't know about.  The swallow was making one of those 
tight, horizontal

turns.  The wings, tail, and body were all turned almost 90 degrees 
(think "vertical").

   But the HEAD was still locked in the normal/horizontal orientation.  
A subsequent

photo of a flock of Western Sandpipers showed the same thing. Perhaps 
this is a

common bird behavior that I just haven't noticed 
before?                     Fun!!!   - Jim