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while the parents fed them with insects which they cought on the wing.

Every once in a while one or two of the young birds flew off for a short distance & tried to catch some but was not very expert yet.

Then the mother would bring it a fat fly & put it in its mouth, almost without stopping, & dash off again for more for the others.

One time she fed one while he was flying. They both met in the air. 

They did not have to flutter a second.   She aimed straight for his open mouth & put the fly in & they both went on for