I’ve posted photos before of some of the birds that hang around our yard and that I’ve taken to feeding bits of old bread or fruit.

The regular crew includes a pair of red vented bulbuls, a pair of Brazilian cardinals, about a half-dozen mynahs, and a pair of red whiskered bulbuls. The latter, which have classy white chests, are the smallest, and when I throw out bits of bread, they are pushed aside by the other birds, which are larger and more aggressives.

But this red whiskered couple are smart. They’ve learned to watch and wait for me to make eye contact with one of them, then throw a bit of bread specifically to them, at which point it will flutter up and catch the snack on the fly.

I managed to record one of them in the act Saturday afternoon, iPhone set to slow motion in one hand, bread in the other.

One, two, three…then you see a bit of bread as a light-colored blur launched from the lower right of the screen. It goes up out of view, then reappears at the top of the screen as it starts to drop and the bulbul makes the catch.