カンムリワシ幼鳥の5個体目です。ちょっと元気のない個体で心配です。
The fifth individual this year, a juvenile. I wanted to photograph it in flight, but it seemed a bit weak — could only get about a metre off the ground and couldn't land on a branch… It walked up the mountain slope on foot and made its way up into the trees by climbing branch to branch. One to keep an eye on.
2年前車にひかれて死んだアオバズクのポイント(夕方のえさ場)に今年から新しい個体が入ったようです。前の個体より警戒心がうすく、写真を撮らせてくれます。^^
It snatched a Brambling that was picking up grass seeds at the roadside and disappeared into the bushes. A flock of 200–300 Bramblings had arrived on the island before the typhoon and seems to have dispersed, appearing in small groups of a few birds.
数日前にリュウキュウツミのペアを見た場所で、今日もペアでいました。オスの方は警戒心が強いのでたかーい松か木の陰に止まっていますが、メスは見晴らしのいい場所で獲物を狙っていました。と思ったのですが、写真をよく見るとアイリングもなくろう膜の黄色が目立ち、胸がオレンジなので季節外れのアカハラダカのメスですね。このまま越冬してくれたらうれしいなー。
先日見たペアはじゃれていたように見えましたが、実は、アカハラダカのメスとリュウキュウツミのオスが喧嘩していただけかも…。^^;
A female Chinese Sparrowhawk. She showed no fear of people at all — even when I got out of the car and set up a tripod she didn't flee. Afterward she caught a cicada and ate it in the undergrowth. If only I'd known it was a Chinese Sparrowhawk, I'd have taken a lot more shots!!