Predators have various hunting styles: some wait in ambush, others search. I watched each style yesterday. In these cases, the prey were insects. One predator was a bird; the other, a spider.
The Western Tanager (this is a female) flies from branch to branch in a canopy. At each stop, it scours leaves for insects and larvae and then eats them.
Restlessly, the Western Tanager never stays long on any branch and is soon off to another one.
The hunting style of the crab spider is different. It waits on a flower until a pollinator comes by, grabs it, and eats it. The pollen spread around it on the daisy petal testifies to a recent conquest.
Went to the Night Festival some years ago in Kaslo. There was a talk on owls. A group of Grade Ones’s kneeled in the front row. The birdsplainer let us know that, “hawks hunt with speed, owls with stealth.” A hand shot up in the front row: “Ok, what about the hawk owl? How does it hunt?”