チゴハヤブサ、カンムリワシ、シマアカモズ(動画あり)
チゴハヤブサが飛来していました。今季、初確認。サシバの渡りでも出ていたそうです。
シマアカモズは今年生まれの幼鳥が警戒心もなく観察がしやすいです。主にバッタを捕まえていました。容器に誘われてか、さえずりも見せていました。
カンムリワシは子育ても終わり、成鳥があちこちで観察できます。幼鳥も順調に親元を離れて7個体ほどが確認されています。
Eurasian Hobby, juvenile. It was being mobbed by Barn Swallows.
Crested Serpent Eagle, adult.
Same individual as above. Colour-ringed. Carrying a hawk-moth caterpillar in its bill.
A first-winter Bull-headed Shrike with little wariness of people.
Same individual as above, from behind.
Diving steeply at prey.
It was hunting right in front of me. The prey was a brownish grasshopper.
Hard to tell whether it went in with its feet or its bill…
Another steep dive.
A different Bull-headed Shrike. It caught a Blue Dasher.
Same individual as above. First-winter plumage.
From behind.
A Oriental Turtle Dove crossed in front of me. Some individuals were carrying nesting material.
