8:30 - 9:00, Sunny, About 23 degrees C
There's lots of water in the Kamo-gawa due to all the recent rain, and the river is very fast-flowing today. This led to a Mallard duckling being swept away downstream from its mother this morning, and almost surely lost.... When I first saw her, the mother only had two tiny ducklings swimming after her, and after swimming upstream on the river's right bank to a waterfall about half a meter high (much too high for the ducklings to mount) the mother crossed to the left bank of the rushing river, glancing back to her ducklings only once as she neared the left bank, and immediately thereafter one of her ducklings lost the battle against the rushing, swirling water, and was swept downstream, and soon out of sight.... The mother duck and her one remaining duckling soon stepped ashore and disappeared into the reeds there....
Birds seen:
Great Cormorant 1
Mallard 1 male/female pair foraging
2 adult-sized juveniles foraging
1 mother with 2 tiny ducklings (one of which was swept away)
Little Egret 2
Gray Heron 1
Gray Starling 3
Brown-eared Bulbul 2
Barn Swallow 4
Tree Sparrow About 20
Japanese Wagtail 2 immature (foraging (mostly unsuccessfully), with much scurrying, and leaping up and down, and almost no flying):
Black Kite 3 (soaring)
Carrion Crow 4 (including 1 juvenle)
(All photos downloaded from the internet. Many thanks to the photographers.)
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