This is the second installment of a two-part series on this topic.
This is the first time to see a falcon that is searching for
prey on the ground.
Encounter with a Northern Harrier while flying
This is the second installment of a two-part series on this topic.
This is the first time to see a falcon that is searching for
prey on the ground.
Encounter with a Northern Harrier while flying
This is the first installment of a two-part series on this
topic.
There will be people all over the world who
know the name of the falcon, even if you haven't seen it.
That's right, the peregrine falcon is a
widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae the worldwide
Every year here, one falcon will come
flying to electric poles in the rice field when its rice harvest is finished.
I have been having thought this falcon will not hunt here since before, only just a rest. However, I watched the falcon that perched on the electric pole was eating a Eurasian jay on 18, October.
Long time no see you
Ah-ha!, My prey fell
away!
It breeds from Tibet to northeastern China, Primorskaya Oblast, and Lake Baikal, and during the non-breeding season, it migrates to Japan, southern China, and northern Indochina Peninsula and overwinters.It is a resident bird in Korea.(Cited from Wikipedia described in Japanese)
This is a female who migrated here at the beginning of November. I rarely see males here this year.
Since I installed images here
is too far away, So, Wikipedia and free images that are not copyrighted have
also been uploaded.
Red crossbill is widely distributed in Europe, northern Asia, and North America. It mainly arrives in Japan as a winter bird, but the number of arrivals varies from year to year. A small number of them breed in the mountains of Hokkaido and Honshu. (Quoted from Wikipedia)
The hilly forest with open black pine trees
a male, cited from a blog that the Image to which copyright does not apply
Inubouzaki lighthouse,near the site
October 21st I already had been waiting for them for over two hours a day for more than twenty days this year. Have they already would be passed, or have they been off the route, or are they would not still be passing? According to my data pictures about Siberian Rubythroat here which I had been taken them in the past, they had been stopped by here as the usual year for about one week on the way to migrate to such as south Asia from Siberia. However, I could not observe them last year due to a typhoon. As usual this year also I had been checking for their arriving here from September 25th to October 21st, two hours every day except for rainy days. On October 21st, just when I was thinking about giving up waiting for the Siberian Rubythroat anymore, Suddenly, a male appeared that has a bit thin grey colored at last from a dark bush. It was in the morning on 21st, September and it was a late stopover than usual year.
Chicks that are fledglings of Ural owls Continuing on from the previous post. Female parent watching her c...