A male Bull- headed Shrike comes back here every autumn to make a winter territory covering the half-a-dozen family-size rice fields near our home in Osaka.
I know he has come back because I can hear his loud, bossy chittering from tree-tops, telephone wires, and roof-tops when he comes back here for the winter. Occasionally I see him flitting from perch to perch, or swooping down on a flock of sparrows or some other intended prey. I've never seen him catch any prey, though. I wonder what he eats.
He arrived back here the first week in September this year. I'm always glad to have this shrike return -- he comes together with the cooling winds of autumn.
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