If you remember a scene from the movie "A Beautiful Mind" where John Nash tried to study the path of pigeons, you will know that their movements are random, haphazard, sporadic, you name it. The reason this image came to mind was because Nash's almost comic & silly movement when following the pigeons was exactly how I looked like when I was taking pictures of insects, animals & birds.
The strategy is to stay put and wait instead of following the subject up, down, left, right, fly away then back again. Otherwise, not only do I look silly, I'll be exhausted by the whole exercise.