Juvenile Scaly-breasted Munia (was Nutmeg Mannikin, before that, Spice Finch) tucking into seed of Para Grass - the Town Common's worst weed by area covered - in the Townsville conservation park today. No need for speed for feed of seed. Though granivores are maddeningly quick to take flight.
So too Welcome Swallows, which are also maddeningly fast and unpredictable feeding in flight on assorted insects. And feed on prey so small as to be nigh invisible. About 90 minutes in chilly southerly blasts on Sunday morning produced no quality images. The birds did however slow low over the water at times to take a slender white unidentified insect from the surface or just under the water.
