{"id":38586,"date":"2013-04-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:44:38","slug":"feeding-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/feeding-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon was very wet and while photographing Grey-headed Lapwing at Koga, Fukuoka, we observed dozens of Barn Swallow flying among the flowering clover and other seeding grasses.<\/p>\n

At first I was mystified by this behaviour, but photographs confirmed our suspicions that the birds were feeding on insects.<\/p>\n

The heavy rain must have prevented insects from flying around and thus be taken in mid-air as per usual Barn Swallow hunting techniques, so the birds had to adapt to snatching prey from the tops of vegetation.<\/p>\n

It was a great spectacle to watch, and I managed a nice sequence of shots with the 1D-X in the dull conditions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Barn Swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon was very wet and while photographing Grey-headed Lapwing at Koga, Fukuoka, we observed dozens of Barn Swallow flying among the flowering clover and other seeding grasses. At first I was mystified by this behaviour, but photographs confirmed our suspicions that the birds were feeding on insects. The heavy rain must have prevented insects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/barn-swallow-1717-1024x6821.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3706,705,7860,2447,2449,4266],"class_list":["post-38586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-shoulder-hawk","tag-barn-swallow","tag-fukuoka","tag-japanese-raccoon-dog","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-koga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}