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Challenge to catch food, "Urban goshawk, 2"

Updated: Aug 12, 2022


This time, I will take up the aftermath of the goshawk that I covered last time.

Hunting that tries many times but does not go well

 

Birds of prey seem to have something to fascinate people.

Sharpened agility, sharpness, coolness and beauty suitable for standing at the top of birds.

The caretaker is also one of the fascinated ones, and since he learned about this young goshawk, he goes to see the goshawk every day.

In addition, some people have been observing and photographing since the time when the parent birds began mating in February, many months ago.

They said they helped set up barricades around the nesting trees to help the goshawk breed successfully, and saved the goshawk from repeated crow attacks.

I think it's because of them that the chicks have grown up so far, and I would like to pay tribute.

This is an urban area where people play a leading role, and the environment is also operated under the control of people.

Therefore, people are also a part of the ecosystem by managing and intervening in the environment that forms the basis of the ecosystem.

Four days have passed since the parent bird last brought food.


During that time, the hunting of young birds has not been successful.

Hunger should have peaked, even if it surpasses hunger with cicadas.

If the parent bird does not bring food, the young bird must succeed in hunting on its own.

To survive, we must overcome this difficulty.



Birds of prey seem to have something to fascinate people.



Sharpened agility, sharpness, coolness and beauty suitable for standing at the top of birds.

The caretaker is also one of the fascinated ones, and since he learned about this young goshawk, he goes to see the goshawk every day.

In addition, some people have been observing and photographing since the time when the parent birds began mating in February, many months ago.

They said they helped set up barricades around the nesting trees to help the goshawk breed successfully, and saved the goshawk from repeated crow attacks.

I think it's because of them that the chicks have grown up so far, and I would like to pay tribute.

This is an urban area where people play a leading role, and the environment is also operated under the control of people.

Therefore, people are also a part of the ecosystem by managing and intervening in the environment that forms the basis of the ecosystem.

Four days have passed since the parent bird last brought food.


During that time, the hunting of young birds has not been successful.

Hunger should have peaked, even if it surpasses hunger with cicadas.

If the parent bird does not bring food, the young bird must succeed in hunting on its own.

To survive, we must overcome this difficulty.



A decent food for the first time in 4 days, devouring the Japanese pygmy woodpecker that I hunted for the first time

That evening, the hungry young bird finally succeeded in hunting.

Perhaps the aim of the parent bird, which did not carry food for days, was to make the child hungry and remind him that he had to catch the food.

Japanese pygmy woodpecker was hunted, probably the first time I hunted a bird myself.

Due to the success of this hunt, young birds rarely refer to their parents as "Pyo, Pyo".

The young bird seems to have approached an adult at a stretch due to the success of this hunt.

Under the moon sky near the full moon, the young goshawk stood on a telephone pole for a while.

It became dark around sunset, and the moon was rising in the night sky.

Before returning to the roost, the young bird stood under the moon for a while and seemed to be thinking about something.

Maybe he was thinking, "Let's fly far away."

postscript

I wrote that the young goshawk hunted the Japanese pygmy woodpecker himself, but no one has witnessed the hunting.

Perhaps the parent bird brought it to a child who couldn't hunt.

The fact is that the young goshawk ate a small bird and became full.



to be continued


 

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