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What is the front of an animal? Out language is largely mammal centric with vision, optimum movement and eating all aligned in one 'forward' direction. indeed you would expect this for any predator as well. But maybe it is not so obvious in other situations. The sideways fiddler crab, the dit down meal octopus, the worm feeling woodcock watching his back? If I were a swallow would I feed better into the wind? resident insects will be flying mostly into the wind, and coming up to them into tthe wind will give the swallow more time to manoevre and an advantage if the insect is looking where it is flying, for instance a predator insect such as a dragonfly. It would seem that swallows east into the wind, and their prey do indeed see best in the direction they fly. I wonder if any have developed driving mirrors? cheers MartinW