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Carolina Chickadee gleaning – foraging for insects, spiders, and other small invertebrates on the surface of the leaves, bark, and sometimes ground.
Carolina Chickadees are one of many species that use their sharp tweezer-like beaks to pluck prey off vegetation.

And, they glean, or otherwise catch,

Eastern Kingbirds – ‘kings’ of the insectivores of North America’s open grasslands – with superb flying skills. They can ‘sally’ from open perches, often flying into the wind so that they can flutter over grass tops plucking insects from the blades.

Or, using their acrobatic aerial skills to ‘hawk’

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds double their weight before migrating to their winter homes in southern MexicoCentral America. The ones that migrate through Atlanta really need the fat stores. When they leave here they go to the Florida panhandle Gulf coast. When they’re ready they will fly non-stop,