Daurian Redstart,ジョウビタキ

A very friendly Daurian Redstart, which can be found in residential areas and home gardens as autumn deepens (quoted from Wikipedia below), breeds in Tibet around northeastern China, coastal states, and  Lake Baikal.In the during non-breeding seasons, migrate to Japan,  China, southern part and the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula,and overwinter. In Japan, it comes all over the country as a winter bird.But in Korea near to Japan it is said to be a resident bird.

 

Japanese Grosbeak,イカル

 As usual, according to Wikipedia, Japanese grosbeak breeds in the coastal region of eastern Russia and in Japan, the group of the north in Japan migrate to southern China in winter and overwinter. In Japan, it breeds in the forests of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, but individuals in northern Japan move to warm regions south of Honshu in winter. The total length is about 23 cm. It has a thick and large yellow beak.

Eastern marsh harrier:チュウヒ

There used to be an RV car named Harrier, but it is the English name of the Eastern Marsh Harrier.

As you know, the Hen harrier (Northern harrier) is also a member of the circinate,very popular among bird photographer in Japan

In Eastern marsh harrier, about three types are observed: normal coat color all brown, white head, and blackhead, but in Japan, the white head is called zusiro, and black is called zuguro.

Zusiro's zu means head in Japanese, and siro means white. Similarly, zuguro's guro means black

I'm not an expert in this field, so I don't know why each coat color is different.

Another name for Zuguro in Japan is Tairikugata tyuhi, which means the continental type of strain marsh harrier in English.

Head: black colored

                                       Head: white colored

                                       Head: brown colored, said to be type normal

 

Northern goshawk、オオタカ

Goshawks, which have been used for falconry as excellent hunters since ancient times, have seen extremely few hunting observations and flying sightings here since 2015. I speculate that one of them is due to the breakage of the food chain wedge. Until at least a few years ago, when large water paths in paddy fields were released in mid-September after rice harvesting, a large number of herons would come in search of the remaining small fishes and eat over them.

However, for several years, at least dozens of common cormorants came from the neighboring Tone River every day to eat up small fish at this time, However, several years ago, at least dozens of great cormorants have been coming from the neighboring Tone River every day to eat small fish at this time, and they ate up it almost of all.

There were no found almost no small fish eaten by herons, and eventually, herons have not come, and therefore goshawks, which feed on herons, also stopped coming.

Yesterday, when I was looking for Long-tailed Rose Finch, which I haven't photographed this season in the reed field of the usual field, I found that a few crows have been crying loudly in a nearby tree.

Then I moved nearby tree  opposite side and found something is moving in the reeds on the shore of the water path. At that moment, I knew immediately that the goshawk was eating its prey. What a male pheasant its prey, and I remembered that in 2013 it was catching a grey heron at this place.

 I will also upload images of the past when goshawks chased pheasant.

Countless number of herons several years ago, in search of small fish

Countless number of common cormorant eat up over small and medium fish

This was in 2013,near to hunting spot of this time.