On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> Stuart MacKay wrote:
>
> I wouldn't be surprised at that at all.
>
> >Last Saturday I saw barn swallows apparently aerial feeding what was
> >presumably a young bird. Two birds flew towards each other then climbed. At
> >the top of their climb (about 15-20 feet) the "act" to place. Judging by the
> >sound one bird made it was begging for food - is this normal. I would expect
> >so ?
> This does surprise me. I'm so used to thinking of swallows "parking" their
> young in prominent places (dead branches, fence wires) and foraging out to
> return to feed them again and again and again and again....well, you get
> the point. A great place for a bird photographer to hang out is in one of
> these parking lots. I don't think I've ever seen a young bird of any kind
> being fed in flight.

Stuart/Dennis--

I've seen this several times this summer and thought it was usual
behavior, as I really haven't paid serious attention to swallow
behavior in the past..I believe the it was mid-air feeding and it
happened exactly as Stuart described it...at the top of the *swoop*..

Tom