今日は鳥との戦いの話題に戻ります
一昨日の夜に餌をやっていた穴を塞いだので、昨日は朝から鳥が大騒ぎ
前日まで餌をやっていた場所に行ってみては引き返すのですが、中ではヒナたちが餌を期待して大きな声で催促していました
夕方に帰宅したときはだいぶ声が小さくなっていましたので、弱ってきたのだと思います
そして今朝、もう親鳥も餌を運ぼうとしません
しかも今日はほとんどの周囲のムクドリたちの巣立ちの日だったようです
何故か一斉に巣立って、しばらくの間は親たちの庇護のもとで樹上生活をします
親は自分の子供に限らず、餌をとってきて与えます
しかし体力がないと巣立ってから木の枝に止まれず、地上まで落ちてしまうものがあります
このヒナも運が良ければ小さな木の枝につかまりながら、徐々に高い安全なところまで到達しますが、運が悪いと猫や犬に捕まってしまいます
夕方私が食事をしているとけたたましい鳥の叫び声が聞こえ、見るとルートが何か咥えて逃げていきます
運の悪いヒナをルートが発見してパクリと食いついたわけです
10羽近い親鳥が一斉にルートを攻撃しています
私がルートを助けに行った時にはすでにルートはご馳走をかみ砕いて飲み込んだところでした
しばらく親鳥たちが騒いでいましたが、日没とともに静かになりました
というわけで、私と鳥たちの戦いは、一応私の勝利ということです
さらにルートはさんざん攻撃されたことに対して、自分で一矢報いたわけです
Today I go back to the topic of the battle with the birds.
I closed the rout to feed the chicks before yesterday and they were quite noisy from the morning of yesterday.
Going to the space that they brought foods until yesterday and they turned without giving foods.
The chicks were expecting foods but didn’t have and asked with the big voice.
When I came back in the evening the chick’s voice were quite small and seemed weakened.
This morning the parents were not going to bring foods any more.
Today it was the leaving day of all chicks around my house.
All of them leave the nests on the same day together and lives on the tree under the parent’s protection for a while until they will be able to capture foods by themselves.
Every parents will be feeding not only own chicks but also all babies.
If they are fortunate enough they will climb to the high branch of the safe place step by step.
But if not fortunate they will fall down to the ground and be captured by the cats or dogs.
In the evening when I had the dinner suddenly the shrill screams of birds had heard.
I found Root had ran away with something in her mouth.
An unfortunate chick had captured by Root and huge number of birds were attacking to Root.
When I went to there to save Root she already crunched her game and swallowed.
The birds were screaming for a while but became quiet with sunset.
Then the battle was finished with I won.
And Root that had so many attacks by the birds returned an effective blow by her self.