6月28日の朝、Ring カメラが捉えたビデオにはヒナの声が入っていました。その後、Ring カメラはモーションに反応するので、一日中映像を撮り続けていました。 On the morning of June 28, the video captured by the Ring camera contained the chicks’ voices. After that, the Ring camera responded to motion and continued to capture video throughout the day.

それに気がついて、私たちも慌てて外に出て、遠くから鉢にカメラを向けました。 Noticing this, we rushed outside and pointed our cameras at the pots from a distance.

この日のうちに大半の卵が孵化したと思われます。まだヒナ達は誰も鉢の外に出ませんでした。そのまま夜を迎え、お父さんと一緒に眠りにつきました。 I believe that most of the eggs had hatched by the end of the day. None of the chicks were out of the planter yet. They went straight into the night and fell asleep with their father.

さあ、翌日、朝7時半、ついに鉢から出る時が来ました。お父さんの涙ぐましい努力がヒシヒシと伝わってきます。お父さんは卵には「はやくでてきなさい！」と呼びかけ、孵化したヒナ達には鉢の外に出るように呼びかけます。お父さんは何回も何回も鉢に入っては呼びかけ、外に出てはジャンプの仕方を見せているようでした。 Now, the next day, at 7:30 in the morning, it was finally time to get out of the planter. The father’s painstaking efforts were clearly evident. The father called out to chicks in the eggs, “Come on out now!”, and to the hatched chicks, ‘Come out of the planter.” The father repeatedly called to the chicks to come out of the planter, and then showed them how to jump from the planter.

勇気のあるヒナから一羽づつ、ジャンプと言うよりポトリポトリと鉢から落ちてきました。 One by one, from the bravest chicks, they fell out from the planter rather than jumping out.

外に出てたヒナ達は、まだ眠いので、落ちた場所で眠りこけてしまう子達が大半でした。でも、そんな事をしていては他の動物に食べられてしまう可能性大なので、お父さんは必死になって物陰に隠れるように叫びます。 Most of the chicks that were outside were still sleepy and would fall asleep where they fell down from the planter. But there was a big chance that they would be eaten by other animals if they stayed there, so their dad was frantically yelling for them to hide in the shadows.

本当なら夫婦でするこの大作業を彼一人でしなければいけなかったんです。見ている私たちもハラハラドキドキでした。 He had to do this huge task alone, which would normally have been done by a pair of Quail. We, who were watching, were also on the edge of our seats.

29日の朝9時半過ぎ、お父さんの最後の呼びかけで無事孵化した13羽たちは、あっという間に隣の空き地の方に走り去っていきました。前日から23時間強の間のウズラ家族の巣立ちドラマが終了しました。残念ながら2個は孵化できなかったようですが、それも含めて自然の一部です。 At a little after 9:30 on the morning of the 29th, at the father’s last call, the 13 successfully hatched and fledged chicks quickly ran off toward the vacant lot next door. The drama of the quail family’s leaving the nest, which began a little over 23 hours earlier, had come to an end. Unfortunately, two of the eggs did not hatch, but that was also a part of nature.

このドラマをまとめたビデオを編集している最中です。次回をお楽しみに！ I am in the process of editing a video summarizing this drama. Stay tuned for the next blog!