Snap a photo instantly while working in other apps.

I have my external iSight camera facing a bird feeder just two feet away. I'd love to be able to instantly, at any time, snap a photo by clicking on an icon in the menu bar or desktop, without having to launch an app. Does anyone know if there is software avaialble that can do this?
Thanks!

The iSight camera must have an application to drive it. It's not a "camera" in the traditional sense.
You may want to consider a low-latency means of activating the external iSight. One way that sort of meets your needs would be a Service that takes a snapshot. First, install the command line tool Image Snap from http://iharder.net/imagesnap.
Then use Automator to create a new Service: Select the Service template, then add the Run Shell Script action. Modify the upper (Service input) section so that
Service receives ... no input
and modify the Run Shell Script action so that instead of the default "cat" it reads
/usr/local/bin/imagesnap -d iSight
[The "-d iSight" specifies an external iSight as the input device, at least on my MacBook Pro with an external iSight attached. Image Snap calls the MBP's built-in camera "Built-in iSight". The Image Snap read me file will guide you through other options you may want.]
But it's not going to be instant. With an iSight, there's always going to be a 2-3 second delay as the camera powers up and focuses on the birds. It's only if the camera is on all the time--and perhaps controlled by the sort of motion-detection application Ralph Johns mentions--that the iSight is going to be able to capture images more or less "instantly" (which may also in any event still take a second or two depending on how the application works).

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