カテゴリー: BIRD

Carduelis flammea
Common redpoll
紅鶸（ベニヒワ）

Photograph by Baikada (ばいかだ)
*CANON EOS Kiss DX*

冬。ようやくやってきた白銀の世界。私は雪とともにやってくる冬鳥の時期を待っていた。
Winter. The world of silvery white that came at last. I was waiting for the time of the winter bird that came with the snow.

春は両生類の産卵。夏は爬虫類の最盛期。秋は魚の遡上。冬は哺乳類や北極圏の鳥。
It is laying eggs of amphibians in spring. It is the golden season of reptiles in the summer. It is going up of the fish in autumn. It is a seal and a bird of the Arctic Circle in winter.

でも、私が撮りたいと思う生き物は、晩秋から初冬にかけてほとんどいない。緑の無くなった灰色の景色が、白銀の世界になるのを待ち焦がれる。
But there is almost no living thing I want to take a picture of from the late autumn to early winter. I long for that green lost gray scenery becomes the world of silver.

ベニヒワは冬とともにやってきた。私の好きな鳥の一つ。今年も私の気持ちを楽にしてくれた。
The redpoll came over with winter. The one of my favorite birds. It eased my feeling this year.

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Sturnus cineraceusorvus
White-cheeked Starling
椋鳥（ムクドリ）

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Pandion haliaetus
Osprey
鶚（ミサゴ）

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*CANON EOS 1D Mark III*

ばしっと決まった写真ではないのですが、タカの仲間を上から見下ろすというのも、良いですよね。
I think that the viewpoint to overlook the osplay is interesting.

図鑑でもあまりお目にかかれないし。識別には、ほとんど役に立たないからだね（＾＾；
Even if this photograph reads an illustrated book, I am not seen. The reason is because it does not stand in the position to distinguish.

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Sterna albifrons
Little Tern
小鯵刺（コアジサシ）

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私の鳥の好みの傾向も流線形。アジサシやカワセミは大好きです。
My favorite tendency of bird is streamlined, too. I love a tern and the kingfisher.

ただ、好きだからと言って撮れるかというとそうはいかない。
流線形の鳥を流線形を生かした形で撮るのは難しい。鳥を撮るのは苦手だ。
However, I cannot take photograph bird well because I like it. It is difficult to take photograph a streamlined bird in the form that I made use of a streamline in. It is hard for me to take a bird.

満足いく鳥の写真を撮れる日が来るのはいつの日か？
Will the day when the photography of the bird which I can be satisfied with is possible come?

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Tetrastes bonasia
Hazel Grouse
蝦夷雷鳥（エゾライチョウ）

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*CANON EOS 1D Mark III*

エゾライチョウは春先はよくつがいで林道に出てきていることがあります。キジやコジュケイなどのように私の中では「地べたの鳥」というイメージです。
Hazel Grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) comes out in the woodland path the early spring with a pair. I have the image that this bird will live in ground just like the Japanese pheasant (Phasianus versicolor) and the Chinese bamboo partridge(Bambusicola thoracicus).

しかし、驚いて飛ぶと、キジやコジュケイは多くが藪に飛び込みますが、エゾライチョウは半分くらいの確率で木の枝に飛んでいきます。
However, the hazel grouse flies to the tree branch at half the probability though many jump into the thicket as for the Japanese pheasant and the Chinese bamboo partridge when flying in surprise.

藪に隠れてやり過ごす戦法と、敵をうかがう戦法を併せ持つ、なかなか賢い鳥です。
It is a smart bird having both strategies to watch an enemy from high place, and to hide in the thicket and spend enemy.

別種ライチョウのことになりますが、「雷鳥」とは、昔は「らいの鳥」と言われたそうです。その「らい」が雷を表すのか、そのほかの言葉なのかはよく分かっていないようです。朝と夕方以外は、天気の悪い暗い空のときだけしか現れないからい」は「雷を呼ぶ」に由来する、という説もあるし、霊山に住む鳥であるから、「らい」は「霊」を表すなんて説もあるようです。
In Japan, there is another kind bird called “Rai-cyo”. “Rai-cyo” is Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta). “Rai”s mean is not well understod. “Cho” is meand “bird”. One theory seys that “Rai” is meand “Thunder”. In Japan, “Thunder” is called “Kaminari” or “Rai”. Because “Rai-cyo” appeared a lot on the day when the weather was bad, it was worshiped as a bird that called the thunder. The other teory seys that “Rai” is meaned “Spirit”.
In Japan, “Spirit” is called “Rei”. “Rai-cyo” equal “Rei-cyo”. Because “Rai-cyo” live in spiritual mounten.

アメリカ先住民には”Thunder bird”という、雷と雨を起こす空想上の鳥が神話で伝えられているようです。でもこちらは写真のような「ライチョウ」の形ではなく、ワシっぽい形のようです。
“Rai-cyo” is a meaning of “Thunder bird” in the kanji now. A bird in the imagination to cause thunder called “Thunder bird” and rain seems to be told to a Native American in a myth. But this seems to be eagle-like form not “Rai-cyo” such as the photograph.

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Bombycilla garrulus
Bohemian Waxwing
黄連雀（キレンジャク）

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*CANON EOS 1D Mark III*

弾丸みたいって思いました。レンジャク類は羽質もなんだかヌメッ（？）とした雰囲気なので、なおさら弾丸みたいです。英語ではWax wingって呼ばれるんですよね。なんとなく納得です。
I thought that he seemed to be a bullet. Because a feather is very minute, I am different from the soft feeling in Wax wing sp, and he seems to be a bullet. Because the point of the tail is yellow, they are called “Ki renjyaku” in Japan. It is the meaning that “Ki” calls yellow. The kind that the point of the tail is red is called “Hi renjyaku” with the same kind. “Hi” is a meaning of the red.

こんなに風の抵抗がなさそうで、弾丸のように飛び立っていますが、飛び方はあんまり余裕のあるタイプじゃありません。ばたばたって一生懸命飛んで、滑翔とか急旋回とかそういう器用なことは出来ないです。ムクドリと飛び方がよく似ています。そして大きさもほとんど一緒なので、単独で飛んでいると時々間違えてしまいます。
There seems to be no resistance of the wind, and he flies away like a bullet, but is not too good at the way of flying. He can flap hard and do neither the gliding nor the rapid turn. He look alike White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus) and how to fly well. And, the sizes of them are also almost the same. I sometimes make a mistake when he fly alone.

Bombycilla garrulus
Bohemian Waxwing
黄連雀（キレンジャク）

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頭だけはファンキーなんですけどね。本当は(^^)
Only the head is outstanding very much. Really… 🙂

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Aegithalos caudatus japonicus
Long-tailed Tit
島柄長（シマエナガ）

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この季節の旬の動物を載せようとすると、圧倒的に鳥の写真が多くなりますね。マクロレンズを使った生き物撮りがしたくなってきました。
Bird’s photograph increases overwhelmingly when the animal of in season of this season is put. I have come to want to take the living thing by using macrolens soon.

さて、このシマエナガですが、ずるいですね…。可愛いです。多くの人が近くで見たら、可愛いと思ってしまうでしょう。北海道以外にも別の亜種のエナガが住んでいますが、上額部から後頭部にかけて、黒い線が入ります。雪だるまみたいなエナガは、シマエナガだけです。
By the way, it is this Long-tailed Tit, but is so pretty. If many people watch them close, will think them to be pretty. The another subspecies Long-tailed Tit(Aegithalos caudatus trivirgatus) that lives excluding Hokkaido in Japan, have a black line from the amount part on to back of the head. Long-tailed Tit like the snowman is only Long-tailed Tit of Hokkaido.

エナガは、英語では Long-tailed Tit。「尾の長いカラ」という意味です。日本には、既に尾の長いカラス科のオナガという名前の鳥がいます。柄長というとあまりピンと来ないですが、どうも柄杓（ひしゃく）から名前の由来があるようです。柄杓の柄が長いような形の鳥ということで。
The name of Long-tailed Tit is a meaning of “Long handle” in Japanese. In Japan, there is Azure-winged Magpie of the name of the meaning called “Long tail” to a bird of the Corvidae. It is hard to understand that I say “Long handle”, but please image a ladle.
The ladle is a tool to dip water. It consists of “Long handle” and “Part where water is dipped”. This bird is called “Long handle” from looking like the shape of this “Long handle”.

エナガはたくさん撮りたい鳥ですが、とても小さくて、ちょろちょろ動き回ります。そして、シジュウカラやハシブトガラよりも少し高い枝で微妙に警戒心が強い気がします。なかなか上手く撮れません。
I want to take a lot of Long-tailed Tit, but it is difficult to take it because they are very small and move. And, Long-tailed Tit thinks it is more cautious than Great Tit(Parus major) and Marsh Tit. I cannot take it quite well.

人から見れば可愛い鳥ですが、生態系では、かなりの下位ランク。常に危険と隣り合わせです。こんな顔して、いかに生きていくか、一生懸命考えたり生活したりしているんですよね。可愛いだけじゃ生きていけないのですよね。
According to a person, Long-tailed Tit is a dear bird, but, by ecosystem, it is a considerable lower rank. They always live in a dangerous state. They think “how they lives” hard. I do not imagine it easily by such their lovely face. Surely… It is not possible to live only lovelily.

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Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Eurasian Bullfinch
鷽（ウソ）

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*CANON EOS 1D Mark III*

カメレオンの目が、右と左で別々に動いているのを知っている人は多いと思います。彼らは、右目の景色と、左目の景色を別々に脳に送って、周りを警戒できるようにしているようです。人間は左右の目で一つのものを見ています。これによって脳の中で立体的な構造を理解し、対象との距離を測る事ができます。反面、視野がとても狭くなります。カメレオンの視点でものを見るには、片目をつぶってみましょう。その状態で、適当なものを掴もうとしても距離感がつかめずに、上手く行動できないと思います。
I think that there are a lot of people who know chameleon’s eyes move separately in the right and the left. They seem to be having surroundings can watched by separately sending the brain the scenery of the right eye and the scenery of the left eye. Human watches one thing with the eyes of right and left. Human understands three-dimensional structure in a brain and can measure distance with the object hereby. On the other hand, a field of vision becomes very small. You will close one eye so that you watch a thing in the viewpoint of the chameleon. The distance feeling cannot be gripped even if it tries to grip the suitable one in the state, and I think that it cannot act well.

動物の目のつく位置を考えると、それぞれ意味があるんだと気がつきます。ヤマシギという鳥がいるのですが、この鳥の目はとんでもないところについています。（頭のてっぺんのほう）しかしここに目があることで主に上空、そしてほぼ360度の視野を得る事ができ、捕食者から素早く隠れる事ができます。こうして考えてみると、鳥はほとんどが目は横についていますね。（フクロウの類を除いて）
I am noticed it is significant respectively when thinking about the place in which the animal has eyes. There is a bird called Eurasian Woodcock, but the eyes of this bird stick to the terrible place. （The one of the top of the head）However, he can get the sky and approximately 360 degrees fields of vision mainly and he is quick and can hide from a predator because here is eyes. Most attaches the bird when I thinking thus and eyes are sideways attached. (Excluding the kind of owl.)

写真を撮るとき、よく鳥には片目で見られる事が多いです。しかし、時々、真正面から見られるときがあります。これはどういうことなんでしょう…。
When I take the photograph of the bird, I well tend to be seen in a bird with one eye. However, I sometimes have time to be seen in a bird with two eyes from the front. This will be any kind of thing…

写真を撮ろうと、近くに寄った場合に正面で見られる事が多いような気がします。写真のウソも、距離にして3m程度でした。花芽を食べるのに必死でその場を離れたくないのか、町の近くなので人馴れしているのか、どちらかはわかりませんが、なかなか移動しませんでした。
I feel like tending to be seen in the front when I got together near to take a photograph. I made Eurasian Bullfinch of the photograph distance, and it was around 3m. Does not Eurasian Bullfinchg want to leave the place desperately to eat flowering sprout? Does not Eurasian Bullfinchg fly in what a person is tame with? I did not understand either, but Eurasian Bullfinchg did not readily move.

鳥が正面を向くとき、やっぱり対象との距離を測ってるんじゃないかと思いました。つまり、鳥は、左右で別の景色を見ながら、必要に応じて両目で対象を捉えて立体視できる動物なのかなあと。詳しいことは調べていないので全然わかりませんが、写真を撮ってて感じた感想です。
When a bird turned to the front, I thought that a bird might measure distance with the object. In other words the bird could watch scenery in right and left, and I thought whether bird was the animal which it watched an object with both eyes if necessary, and cut it in stereoscopic vision. Because I do not examine it, I don’t understand that I know a lot, but it is the impression that I take a photograph, and I felt.

今までも、アオサギやヤマガラ、このウソのように、近くに寄ることで正面から睨まれる（？）ことが多かったからです。「鳥の正面視」＝「近付き過ぎ」、と捉えて、今後は写真撮るときに鳥が正面を向くようになったら距離を離そうと思います。
Grey Heron and Bush tit, this Eurasian Bullfinch, the reason is because they tended I to be glared because I get together near so far. I think and think that “What the bird views from the front” = “Approach to the bird too much of me” to take their eyes off it at distance if a bird comes to turn to the front when I will take a photograph in future…

捕食者である動物は、キタキツネにしても、エゾタヌキにしても正面から対象を見ている事が多いです。やはり、獲物との距離を測る事が大切だからでしょうかね。
The animal which is a predator tends to watch an object like Ezo red foxand Ezo raccoon Dog from the front. After all will the reason be because it is important to measure distance with the catch?

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Alcedo atthis
Common Kingfisher
翡翠(カワセミ)
(愛知県にて）

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*CANON EOS KISS DIGITAL X*

RGB最終章は青です。青は皆さんの目に触れる機会が一番多い、自然の色だと思います。海、湖、大空…。生き物を育む環境の根幹には青があるように思います。
The final chapter of RGB is blue. Blue is nature’s color to be able to see you very well. Sea, lake, and the sky… I think that there is blue in the basis of the environment that brings up the creature.

私は、青い爬虫類をじっくりと写真を撮ってみたいのですが、なかなか思い通りの青い爬虫類に出会えていません。鮮やかな水色の北海道東のアオダイショウはとても美しい。しかし水色であって青ではない。
ニホントカゲの幼体の尾のメタリックブルー。これもとても美しいけれど、あれが全身の色だったらどうだろう？あまり気に入らないかもしれない。私は、魚で言えばナンヨウブダイのような、鳥で言えばオオルリのような、そんな青い爬虫類に出会ってみたい。実は1度だけ、それに近い爬虫類に出会ったことはある。
I want to take a photograph with blue reptiles slowly, but cannot readily meet blue reptiles just as wanted. Japanese ratsnake in East-Hokkaido of the vivid light blue type is very beautiful.
However, it is light blue, but not blue. Metallic blue of tail of infant of Japanese five-lined skink. How if that is a color of the whole body though this is also very beautiful? It is likely not to like it so much for me.

西表島で出会った、夜の海の中を泳ぐ、ヒロオウミヘビの青。
月夜に照らされた美しい青。あの記憶を写真に出来たらいいのに…。と思ってしまいます。爬虫類のことばかり言って、この写真のカワセミには失礼ですね。（＾＾；
I want to come across blue reptiles. The blue that seems to be Big blue parrotfish if it is a fish. The blue that seems to be Blue-and-White Flycatcher if it is a bird. In fact, there can be the thing that I came across the reptiles which were near to it once. Blue of Banded amphibious sea snake swimming in the night sea where I came across in Iriomote Island. The beautiful blue that was lighted up in a moonlit night. Though I should have been able to do it to a photograph for that memory…. I think so. I say only of reptiles and am rude to Common Kingfisher of this photograph. (^^;

このカワセミの青は、身近で出会える、とても美しい青だと思います。誰もが親しめる美しい青。一年中楽しむことの出来る青。視界の片隅に入れば強く印象に残る鮮烈な青。
We can meet near ourselves blue of this Common Kingfisher to be very beautiful blue, I think. The beautiful blue that anyone can get close to. The blue that I can enjoy throughout the year. It is shocking blue that strongly remains in the impression if entering the corner of view.

被写体として、人気がありすぎて、正直じっくりと撮ることを避けてしまうカワセミなのだが、やっぱりいると撮ってしまう。
I come to want to avoid taking it because Common Kingfisher is popular among everyone as subject in the photograph. However, I take it carelessly when there is a Common Kingfisher.

冬の環境に、あの青は反則的に輝いている。
That blue sparkles in the environment of the dark color of the winter.

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Alcedo atthis
Common kingfisher
翡翠(カワセミ)

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公園を歩いていたら、「キーッ」と声がして、カワセミが枝に止まりました。カワセミは、こういう見通しのきく場所の先端などが好きみたいです。ちょっと嬉しくなって、撮ってみました。しかも偶然、飛び立つ直前の瞬間が撮れました。普段、私は鳥を撮る事が少ないので、連写機能はあまり使ったこともなく、カメラ自体の能力も高速撮影に適したものではなかったので、1回シャッターを切っただけで、この写真が撮れたのは結構嬉しかったです。
I was walking in the park. The common kingfisher barked, and perched in the branch , at that time. The common kingfisher likes place where the prospect is effective. I became glad, and took the common kingfisher’s photograph. As for the photograph, the moment when it flew away by chance was taken. As for me, it is few to take the bird usually. I had not used the function of consecutive taking a picture, and it was not the thing which ability of camera in itself was suitable for to photograph a moment. However, I was glad because I pressed the shutter once, and this photograph came out.

でも良く見ると、この枝、自然なようでいて、不自然です…。カワセミの好みそうなところに、カワセミの好みそうな角度で、しかも写真を撮りやすい位置に、枝先を切って加工した枝が張り出している。しかも、全く葉っぱが無く視界を遮るものがない。
However, when this photograph is seen well, the branch is unnatural. The branch that cuts in the position in which the photograph is taken easily the branch ahead and processed it projects to the place where the common kingfisher seems to like it at the angle that the common kingfisher seems to like. The leaf is completely, and moreover, it is not, and there is no something that cuts off the view.

どなたかの「努力」の痕なのでしょう。私にはこの「努力」をどう感じていいのか、はっきりわかりません。「努力」のお陰で貴重な写真が残る場合もあります。「努力」のせいで、生き物が危険に晒されたりすることもあります。
It might be of someone’s “Effort”. It is not understood how I may evaluate this “Effort” to me. A valuable photograph might be taken thanks to “Effort”. The living thing might be jeopardized because of “Effort”.

ただ、動物の生活に大きな影響を与えるほどの、行き過ぎた「努力」は嫌いです。この「努力」により、カワセミはお気に入りの場所をひとつ手に入れ、私も、1枚きれいな写真が撮れました。正直、かなり微妙で複雑な気持ちです。
However, I hate “Effort” as it has a big influence on the life of the animal. By this “Effort”,the common kingfisher was able to obtain a favorite one place and I also take one beautiful photograph. I am slightly complex feelings…

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