{"id":912,"date":"2010-08-21T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2010-08-21T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T21:45:17","slug":"912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/912\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Barn Swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=904\">previous post about the Barn Swallow nest<\/a>, I wished that I had been able to see the young ones in the nest after they hatched. With a little patience, and prolific breeding on the part of the Barn Swallows, I got what I wished for! In late July, the same nest was in use again and on July 28 I discovered two very young nestlings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-913\" title=\"swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo.jpg\" alt=\"Barn Swallow nestling\" width=\"550\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/swallow-barn-nestlings7-28-10j-redo-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve photo newly-fledged Barn Swallows before and thought that hatchlings would look similar &#8212; not so.\u00a0 The two little ones weren&#8217;t bundles of cute white fluff.\u00a0 Or really very cute at all&#8230;\u00a0 but once I got over the surprise at seeing dark little masses of feathers, I remembered that most beautiful birds start out rather homely.\u00a0 Since it&#8217;s not for me to judge how baby birds should look, I&#8217;ll stop thinking this is one ugly baby \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the age of this young bird; Barn Swallows stay in the nest for 18 &#8211; 23 days after hatching.\u00a0 I will ask more advanced birders to estimate the age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post about the Barn Swallow nest, I wished that I had been able to see the young ones in the nest after they hatched. With a little patience, and prolific breeding on the part of the Barn Swallows, I got what I wished for! In late July, the same nest was in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}