What Happened to the Birds in My Neighborhood After the Typhoon Passed Through -- No Worries, No Tears

Typhoon Lan passed through my neighborhood all day and that night, but at dawn, it had gone. It left behind flooded rice fields, crushed fields of Cosmos flowers, raging little streams that are usually placid,  6-meter-high bamboo trees snapped in half, up-rooted and toppled eucalyptus, willow, pine, plane, and oak trees....  Also, ponds and lakes in Hattori Ryokuchi Koen Park that were devoid of the many ducks, egrets, herons, grebes, and kingfishers that had certainly been there the previous few weeks.

And our neighborhood Bull-headed Shrike was not heard from at all the first day, or the second day, after the typhoon. Carrion crows and Tree Sparrows were the first birds to come back to our local rice fields (early the first morning after the typhoon, and were seemingly pretty content, and even excited, about what they found to eat in those fields).

And then, right at sunrise on the third morning after the typhoon, I heard a shrike calling as it and crows and sparrows came into the neighborhood for the day. So all is well again. I do wonder where the shrike spent those few days he went missing after the typhoon. And I wonder where all the ducks disappeared to.... But just today, I saw 4 species of ducks, and a few grebes, in Uzuwa Ike pond, and Tufted Ducks, and  Northern Shovelers, and a Common Kingfisher in Shingu Ike Lake... so, I say, all's well with the world again....