Yesterday, I took this picture of Aobazuku or Brown hawk owl in a shrine which is 40-minute drive away from our home. I know that this is a parent bird, but I don't know if it is the father or the mother. This bird was with its spouse and three chicks just came out from their nest two days ago. Local people told us that every spring, the migratory owls come to the tree which is more than 400-year-old. They lay their chicks in the nest and stay for one or two months on that tree. Then, they would fly to another place a few days after their chicks come out.
Please make corrections below. Thank you!
We hope that all the family members will have safe trips and come back in that tree in the next spring. This bird is registered as one of the endangered species in our area.
This looks like one tree. But two trees.
Left side is Aphannanthe aspera and right one is Zelkova serrata.
The other parent bird
The three chicks
We waited for about one hour to seek if there is any chance to capture their faces, but unfortunately they didn't move so much. Owls are night birds, they sleep in daytime.
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I am studying the vocabulary book titled "1100 words you need to know", and I found some sentences are difficult to grasp what they are meant. Please help me to understand the yellow highlighted part. Thank you!
"HOW NOT TO GET YOUR WAY"
It is difficult to change someone's opinion by badgering him. The child who begs his mother to "get off his back" when she implores him for some assistance with the household drudgery, may very well plead interminably for some special privilege when he wants something for himself. How paradoxical that neither is able to perceive that no one likes being nagged.
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My understanding with some examples:
Sometimes mothers want their kids to help washing dishes, cleaning bath tubs, etc. They keep on asking "Please help me your hand for five minutes or so." Their Kids, then, respond by saying, "I am too busy finishing homeworks, the deadline is tomorrow. I am in a hurry. Please stop asking me, Mom." Do not ask them repeatedly, it doesn't work. Kids don't understand mom's situation very well. On the otherhand, kids may ask their mothers for buying some toys, and they keep on crying in the malls. Kids don't know it doesn't work. Mothers are not very interested in their toys. Both of them don't understand that nagging is not a good idea.
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(I checked some unfamiliar words with online dictionaries, the meanings are below. )
badgering ... to pester, nag, annoy persistently
get off his back ... (Slang) stop annoying or bothering a person
implore ... to plead urgently for aid or mercy
drudgery... unpleasant, dull, or hard workIf you say that something
may well ... If you say that something may well happen, you mean that it is likely to happen:
She may well not want to travel alone.
plead ... allege, argue; petition, solicit; entreat, appeal, implore
interminably ... unending
privilege ... to treat some people or things better than others
paradoxical ===> adj. of (paradox ...a situation that seems strange because it involves two ideas or qualities that are very different: It's a paradox that in such a rich country there can be so much poverty.
perceive ... to understand, know, become aware of
nag ... to keep asking someone to do something, or to keep complaining to someone about their behaviour, in an annoying way
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