Both parents normally feed the chicks directly, but since she was already in the nest, I guess he had to give it to her first.

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The guys are really fast, but it is their unpredictability and erratic flying that makes them difficult to photograph. The background is piles of kelp on the beach.
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A full time job keeping 3 kids fed.

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He actually looks kind of cute here, but make no mistake he is a badass! They don't call him the butcher bird for nothing.

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These flycatchers were catching every type of insect imaginable. Wasps, bees, flies, caterpillars, moths, beetles and worms. The robber fly was pretty impressive, they're kind of like a spider and have a dagger like tool which pierces their victims and then injects a fluid which liquifies the preys insides, then sucks it out with the same tool like its a straw.

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