メジロ巣立ち、シジュウカラ子育て奮闘
今朝、家の前のメジロの巣で巣立ちがありました。一気に飛んで、数メートル先の草むらの中に落下。親鳥が、頻繁に訪れるのでいる場所は分かるのですが姿は見えず。
午後、洗濯物を干しに自宅に戻ると高さ1.2メートルほどに伸びた草の上に乗っかっていました。
公園のシジュウカラも子育て中のようで、餌を運んでいました。近所のキジバトも間もなく巣立ち。那覇は意外と町中での営巣が見つかる。^^
Just after fledging, the tail feathers are still short — body length perhaps 5–6 cm. Small and frail-looking, but a proper fledgling.
The leaves are about 4 cm long. Warbling White-eye fledglings are small and greenish, so take your eyes off them for a moment and you lose them.
The parent was calling persistently, guiding the chick toward a taller tree.
Okinawa Tit. It looks considerably whiter than the Ishigaki Tit.
It is holding a spider down with its left foot. Afterwards it flew off carrying it to the nest.
It spots a spider at the tip of a branch, but the spider jumps!! The tit dashes after it immediately and successfully catches the spider. ^^
A flustered tit and a spider fleeing for its life.