{"id":934,"date":"2013-06-24T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/06\/24\/130623-barnswallowvideo\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:27:08","slug":"130623-barnswallowvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/06\/24\/130623-barnswallowvideo\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Swallow Feeding Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 36px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/barnswallowfeeding.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - barn swallow feeding a baby\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/06\/22\/more_nest_peeping_barn_swallows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The photos I posted<\/a> of the barn swallow family got enough positive reaction that I decided to get some video of the parents taking care of the young&#8217;uns.<\/p>\n<p>Following is a five-minute video distilled from about a 45 minutes of raw footage. I&#8217;ve edited it to focus on the interactions between the adults and the babies, which of course is all about the feeding. During that time period, I counted 11 distinct instances of feeding.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the highlights you&#8217;ll observe if you watch the entire video.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It appears that both parents contribute to the feeding. I can&#8217;t tell them apart, but at the 2:50 mark, one shows up to &#8220;tag team&#8221; the other (although at first glance, it seems not be be a welcome appearance).<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">I have always assumed that barn swallows fed their young by regurgitating partially digested insects into the babies&#8217; mouths, but right off the bat &#8211; at the 30 second mark where I&#8217;ve slowed down the action &#8211; you can see a whole insect, legs sticking out of the adult&#8217;s mouth, and it gets stuffed right down the gullet of the infant. I guess they know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Another slo-mo feeding takes place near the end, at the 4:10 mark, and this one seems to clearly demonstrates the regurgitating process.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">It&#8217;s also fascinating to watch how the adults seemingly know who gets fed next. If there was any doubling up, with one youngster getting fed twice in a row, I didn&#8217;t catch it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68975907?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68975907\">Barn Swallow &#8211; Feeding Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos I posted of the barn swallow family got enough positive reaction that I decided to get some video of the parents taking care of the young&#8217;uns. Following is a five-minute video distilled from about a 45 minutes of raw footage. I&#8217;ve edited it to focus on the interactions between the adults and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/06\/24\/130623-barnswallowvideo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barn Swallow Feeding Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12684,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}