Flycatchers can often be seen at the edge of the forest this year. They prefer clearings with small trees on them. As a rule, flycatchers sit on tree branches and carefully examine everything that is located in the clearing below them.
Their eyesight is excellent. They see a variety of flying insects at a distance of up to 10m
As soon as the flycatcher sees a flying insect, it breaks off the branch. But it doesn't fly directly to the insect.
It instantly determines in which direction the insect flies and makes a smooth semicircle in flight towards it so that it can fly up to the insect only from the front.
The insect does not have time to dodge the swift flycatcher and hits its beak directly.
Having seized an insect, the flycatcher usually carries the insect to the nest to chicks or sits on a twig and eats its prey.
Often, when the insect is large, it presses the insect with its paw to the tree on a branch and eats in parts.
Then she sits down on a branch again and takes a comfortable position to start her hunt for flying insects again.
