昨日イソヒヨドリを見てうれしかったと日記に書いたが、実は声はいつもと違っていた。
いつもは繊細な美しい声なのだが、昨日はトゲのあるけたたましい声だ。
つまり威嚇する相手がいたということだ。相手はヒヨドリ。この地域の古くからの住人だ。
イソヒヨドリより一回り大きい。
そして今日、いつものおだやかなイソヒヨドリの声。そしてヒヨドリの声はしない。勝負あった。
ウェートで勝る相手に勝つってすごいと思い、調べてみたら、なんと、ケンカはめっぽう強く、一羽でムクドリの群れを追い払ったという目撃例もある。
なんて魅力的なんだろう。
I wrote in my diary that I was happy to see a shore bird yesterday, but in fact, its voice was different from usual.
Normally, it is a beautiful, delicate voice, but yesterday it was a raspy voice.
In other words, there was someone to threaten. It was a chickadee, an old resident of this area.
It is one size larger than the shore bird.
And today, I heard the usual gentle call of the shorebird. And no chickadee's voices. That means the winner had been decided.
I thought it was amazing that they could beat a bird that outclassed them in weight, so I did some research on the net and found out that they are extremely strong in a fight, and there is an eyewitness account of one bird chasing off a flock of starlings.
I got faschinated.
