For a couple of years, my wife and I had a pair of white-breasted nuthatches nest in a box I put up on the edge of the woods. They are a good species to observe raising their young because they less afraid of humans than many other species. Keep in mind, I am using a long lens, so I am not as close as it may appear.
The thing is, once the young hatched and feeding began (in which both parents participate), they would bring them some of the ugliest bugs I have ever seen. They would only be gone a minute, so they were getting them close by and yet, I had never seen some of the awful things they were routinely bringing to their hungry offspring.
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