Feed Me, I'm Yours

Hatched on June 6th, look how big our Barn Swallows are already!

And just look at the size of that hungry little mouth!  The parents are kept busy catching insects and stuffing them into these bottomless pits.

With their deeply forked tails and swift wings, swallows hunt insects from just above the water to heights of 100 feet. Swallows eat a LOT of mosquitoes, and blackflies, and other large biting insects so we are huge fans of these beautiful and charming birds.