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\"BarnBarn Swallow landing on a windy morning \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

It was windy two morning ago at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> and that meant a I had a few challenges while photographing birds but the birds had some challenges too. It seemed that the Bank, Barn, Cliff and Tree Swallows were struggling to land on tops of rushes, cattails and phrags the in the wind too.<\/p>\n

When this Barn Swallow came in to land it struggled a bit with the wind which is why its wings were raised to regain its balance in this image. Having the swallow with its wings up made for a nice photographic opportunity for me but I wonder if the swallow would agree.<\/p>\n

I photographed the Bank, Barn and Tree Swallows while I was at the refuge but missed out on having any Cliff Swallows come in close enough to take photos of. All of the swallows were bouncing around on their chosen perches because of the wind. I even got a little dizzy a few times trying to keep them in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

I still haven’t gone through all of the images I took at the refuge two days ago but I liked this Barn Swallow image and decided to share it today.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good. Stay safe.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Barn Swallow photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When this Barn Swallow came in to land it struggled a bit with the wind which is why its wings were raised to regain its balance in this image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2108,124,27,1148,26],"tags":[4004,2111,4545,4123,4094,4378,2315,4807,3470,4095,1193,6483],"class_list":["post-72865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barn-swallows","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-barn-swallow","tag-hirundo-rustica","tag-landing","tag-marsh","tag-morning","tag-summer-3","tag-swallow","tag-swallows","tag-wetlands","tag-windy","tag-wings-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/barn-swallow-wings-up-in-wind-mia-mcpherson-4933.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-iXf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116184,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/09\/22\/late-summer-barn-swallow-delight\/","url_meta":{"origin":72865,"position":0},"title":"Late Summer Barn Swallow Delight","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"September 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I was thoroughly delighted to capture several late summer Barn Swallow photos during my last trip to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. 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