"The story of a goshawk, a bird of prey that has advanced into the city Tokyo Japan"
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.
Meeting with brothers at the riverside
This blog is delivered with the delusion of the manager.
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Three fully grown young birds.
Recently, I went on a day trip and gradually learned about the outside world.
It seems that the distance to fly is increasing day by day.
Outside this forest, there is a big and big world that we can't even imagine.
It was around this time that I felt that there was no point in staying in this forest.
Now that my dad's goshawk has almost stopped returning with his prey, it seems that his brothers are all discussing something at the riverside.
"Why don't you leave this place and look for a new world somewhere!" "Hmm !?"
Recently, the number of crows has increased in the Otaka Forest.
Apparently, the reason is that the three brothers are not only hungry, but the crows that come out a little are noisy.
The crows have gradually increased in number and overwhelmed the goshawks.
Apparently, they are coming to take back this forest.
In the goshawk forest, crows have become dominant enough to say that half of them are occupied by crows.
Isn't Dad returning to reconnaissance for a while?
A crow on the top of a tree, a goshawk with a narrow shoulder
Crows, who have come to the forest of goshawks in increasing numbers, will come to the goshawks in cooperation with each other, so it's hard to do.
Under such circumstances, what was the conclusion reached at the meeting of the three brothers?
"Find a new place, not get rid of the crows."
In this vast and endless world, "There must be some good place!"
"I'm sure my dad and mom are there!"
Perhaps I thought that way, I started to stay overnight and go out to find a new place somewhere.
Even though my body is growing well, I'm still immature to think about it.
But all the knowledge comes from experience, gained through my own challenges.
The path that our father and mother have followed in the same way.
A father and mother goshawk who arrived at this forest last year in search of such a new world.
Now it has opened up a new world and transformed the crow forest into a hawk forest.
And three of us were born, and we were able to grow up so well.
Around this time, the three brothers began to go out overnight.
Even so, I often come back to the Otaka Forest, perhaps because I can't find a good place.
After all, the place where I was born and raised is probably the most calm.
Crows are not always in this place.
A forest where you can hardly see goshawks and feel lonely
When the goshawk leaves the forest, the area around the forest becomes a quiet space and becomes very lonely.
Birds and pigeons are well aware that there is danger in this forest, so they don't get too close.
There were some pigeons that tried to breed in such a forest, but from that point on, they were a minority.
Every world has strangers, and it is also true that such strangers open up new worlds.
Dad who came back, maybe it was the first time in a while to send it to the children
One morning when the three goshawk brothers were paying off, the goshawk's father came back.
For the first time in a while, he seems to have come to the children who may be hungry.
However, I can't find any children in the Otaka Forest.
Dad Goshawk seems to have thought, "The children have grown up brilliantly and went out to look for a new world from this place."
He wanted to chew himself, the prey he originally brought for his children.
This male will surely breed in this Otaka forest with his partner next year.
It may be that he came back and also scouted the forest.
The reason why crows are rarely seen in this forest may be that the goshawk's father occasionally scouts for breeding next year and drives away the crows.
As soon as one breed is finished, preparations for the next breed have already begun.
At first glance, wild birds seem to live gracefully and freely.
The same can be said for all wild animals, not just wild birds.
That is, "to live and connect lives."
The future is far away, 100 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years.
All life is living like this now.
10 years, 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years, and even far away, if we could connect without interruption.
All life living on the earth has reached the present without interruption.
The story of the goshawk that unfolds in front of us is also a scene of life that has been connected from such a long time ago and is connected to the distant future.
Underneath the nest where the goshawk grew, the wreckage of lost life
I wonder how many lives were lost before the goshawk grew up to this point.
Many lives are needed for a carnivore to survive.
Living birds, animals and even insects are sacrificed.
But this robbed life is not just robbed.
It has the power to sift that those who are more agile and have a strong ability to live will survive preferentially.
It is the power that the seed becomes stronger.
Such carnivorous birds and beasts that cannot live without a sacrificial life.
Sunbeams in the forest illuminate the remains of life
The wreckage of the goshawk's body, which became the source of life, eventually becomes soil and becomes a new source of life.
It may be cleaned in urban parks, but this is the basis of nature.
What the caretaker was watching was such a drama of wild life.
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to be continued
Events between August 4th and 15th, 2018
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