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Swallow Feeding Young

I spent half an hour or so watching young Swallows being fed by their parents on farmland in the White Peak of Derbyshire on Sunday. They were lined up on a barbed wire fence as the parents hawked for insects low over a field, dodging in and out of the grazing sheep. Every so often, one of the youngsters would frantically flap its wings and an adult would swoop in, pass a meal of flies from beak to beak and quickly resume hawking. I managed to get a few decent images amongst lots of rubbish using a high shutter speed and medium aperture.

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Uploaded on July 5, 2021
Taken on July 4, 2021