アマツバメの飛び交う空

Last weekend I went to see hawk migration at Takeyama mountain in the middle of Miura peninsula in Kanagawa. It's one of the easiest places to visit to watch the autumn spectacular from Tokyo area.
三浦半島の武山にタカを見に行ってきた。



It was a sunny, hot day but slightly misty. The wind direction was good, north easterly, yet it was too weak. But still we saw as many as 21 Grey-faced buzzards in a swirling kettle!
遠く海の上だったけれど、21羽のサシバのタカ柱。



Not hawks but the best scene I saw that day was Pacific swifts swiftly flying into the view one flock after another and soaring up into the sky.  Someone counted more than 200 at a time.
三浦半島渡り鳥連絡会のカウントによれば、この日はアマツバメが230羽も飛んだらしい。声も聞こえた。



天気がよかったので、タカ以上に人が多かった。さすが都心に近いタカの渡り観察地。



何羽かは近くでも見られた。稲村ケ崎よりは、山の上なだけあって、やはり距離が近い。