"The story of a goshawk, a bird of prey that has advanced into the city"
This blog introduces the life of a goshawk, a wild drama that unfolded in front of the caretaker in an urban park in Tokyo from July 2017 to December 2018.
Can you eat the spot-Billed turtle?
Last time, I talked about how my dad goshawk started squeezing food to get his kids to hunt.
The children seem to have started hunting imitations to answer that question.
I'm hungry, so it seems that they started wondering if they could somehow catch their prey.
This time I will talk about that.
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The three brothers have become so hungry that their father's prey isn't enough.
Can't you catch the food somehow?
Each of the brothers seems to think that way.
The riverside, which is now a playground, when I got off to drink water as usual, the spot-Billed turtles approached me.
It's big and "If you get caught, you'll surely be full of all your brothers."
A spot-Billed turtle that sees through the heart of the goshawk,
"Maybe it's easy to catch!"
It seemed like that happened, and I tried to get closer to the spot-Billed turtle.
Then, the spot-Billed turtles ran away all at once.
The eastern spot-Billed turtles are also expected to have strange feelings about the young goshawks.
The sign is completely different from when bathing.
Perhaps I realized that it would be difficult to catch from the ground, this time I jumped at the spot-Billed turtle from a slightly higher place.
A young bird that jumps on a spot-Billed turtle with a light feeling
Young birds
"Today is kamonabe!"
"Catch the spot-Billed turtle and surprise your brothers and dad!"
I thought, I jumped at the spot-Billed turtle standing in the river.
A spot-Billed eastern spot-Billed turtle surprised by the first aerial attack by a young goshawk
I ran away with a loud voice.
Even though it's the sky, it's a jump from the nearby riverbank.
I was surprised at the menacing voice of the eastern spot-Billed bird, which was about to attack the eastern spot-Billed turtle, and my legs were pulled.
You can't catch prey very much with such annoyance.
Dad who always puts in prey, "How do you catch prey?"
The young birds also gradually realize how amazing their father is, who always catches their prey.
A lot of eastern spot-Billed turtles around us.
I think it's easy to catch and eat, but it's not so easy.
It seems that the three Goshawk brothers realized that the world was not so sweet.
Speaking of which, "Our dad has never brought a spot-Billed turtle to the table."
There may be some reason.
Maybe it's too big to catch, or it's awkward in the water, or it's hard to catch.
Ignore the crow without worrying about it
I noticed that there was a young bird.
It's a way to gain an edge in the chase that you always do.
You can gain an advantage when you are in a high place.
If you dive from a high place, you can speed up at once without using power!
That's how you can speed up and jump on your prey!
So, I decided to stand on the treetop and aim for the prey that was off guard.
"From behind so as not to be noticed!"
"Even so, it's always a noisy crow!"
While waiting for prey on the treetops for a while, I found an unfamiliar bird flying upstream along the river.
Here, a bird that flies gracefully over the river, which you rarely see!
The young bird boldly dived towards the bird.
Dive boldly towards your prey
The prey slowly flies upstream along the river.
It seems that he has not yet noticed that he is being targeted by young goshawks.
The young goshawk rapidly increased in speed with the plunge.
The targeted prey also accelerates rapidly, making a sharp turn at the very edge of the water surface.
The target prey seems to have noticed the sudden approach of the young goshawk, and accelerated at once.
Just barely on the surface of the water, repeat sharp turns and exchange yourself.
Turn sharply on the surface of the water and dodge goshawks
A young goshawk, just barely on the surface of the water, so low that the feathers touch it! I can't keep up with such a sharp turn at low altitude.
It's hard for the feathers to touch the surface of the water!
"Ah, I can't catch such a quick guy!"
The target prey seems to be a kind of plover.
Anyway, this is the first time I've seen a plover here.
Its ability to fly across the ocean, albeit small, should be far superior to that of goshawks.
It wasn't a very, very manageable alternative for young birds with no hunting experience.
Why are few birds gracefully dancing around this Otaka Forest?
There was a reason for that.
It was known to the Otaka Forest and the wild birds in the neighborhood.
Rumor has it that the birds in the neighborhood
"If you get close to such a place, you will be eaten by demons!" (Pigeon roosting the neighborhood!
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The children of small birds are also said to be like this by their parents, saying, "Because scary, scary demons live, you should never approach the forest!" (Neighborhood sparrow) ing.
So you rarely see prey that is easy to catch.
Of course, demons are goshawks.
If you chase after this demon and get caught, there is no life.
The young goshawks felt that it was not so easy to hunt successfully and that it was difficult to hunt.
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to be continued
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