Now that more people are snapping away with their digitals, I
might draw attention to the advantage of the new media in catching interesting behaviour
rather than just the still shot. The camera can reveal action that is
virtually invisible to the eye. Here are two examples that involved less
than a second. In the first an adult WB Woodswallow challenges a juvenile
Masked for possession of a cicada. The juvenile holds its ground and
retains the catch. In the second a male Hooded Robin feeds an insect to a
Pallid Cuckoo chick. Some intervening frames have been omitted in both
examples. Of course the images are only ‘video quality’.
