Original air date: 11 November 1998

Above is a timeline of what happens in the episode, a more detailed timeline is below

Selected material:
Looking for something moving

The scops owl has eyes very sensitive to movement. Spotting a possible target (left) it will become meal if it moves, and it did (right), a juicy spider (7′-7’12). Brilliant camerawork reflecting the sense of movement in this way.
Coming up:
“But only about a third of the earth is covered by land. The rest is covered by water, of one kind or another. There’s plenty of food there, too, but you have to learn very different techniques if you’re going to go fishing, as we will see in the next programme in The Life 0f Birds.“