基礎セミ American eagle 森田美紗子
I’ve been filming raptors (?) since 1973. It's a lLong time. I’m Niel Rettig. I amthe (?) principalle cinemato photographer for Nnature's American Eeagle, a film that we’ve been working on now that for a year and a half. And we’re just coming to the tail end(?). We’re trying to catch the spring migration from this overlook, looking over the Mississippi river on the Wisconsin side.
It’s kind of a semi-(?) warm day about 25 degrees. Tthe wind iss out of the west a little bit. And we’re getting a its (?)sporadic flock of eagles (?) that are starting their way back north for the breeding season next this year.
I live here very close to Mississippi river down into prairie (?) Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. I actually live about 5 miles from the river. And I’ve noticed the increase in bald eagle population that is (?) unparalleled over the past ten years or so.
And I’ve seen some pretty amazing behavior with bald eagles both nesting and feeding and forging foraging and wintering(?) here. And I thought it would’ll be an ideal place and ideal topic to do a film on bald eagles because it really hasn’t been done in the detail that we’re attempting to do it.
*bald eagle ハクトウワシは米国の国章：旧ドイツ・オーストリア・フランス帝国などの国権の象徴
In Alaska, especially near Aleutians, the bald eagles can be really brazen, very unafraid of people.
At the Chilkat River(地名) river, which is near Haines(地名), the eagles…, some of them would tolerate, you know, we can get within 30-40 feet. But one individual bird let us toless get, believe it or not, two feet away.
It wasn’t that, it wasn’t just a simple thing of walking up to the eagle. Wwe had to creeped up slowly and kind of gain her trust and that took a couple days. … Shewhich became a really intense movie star in the eagle film.
And she allowed us to get this sort osomef amazing close-ups. Incredible. But that was an exception. I mean, none of the other ones were quite that tame. She was remarkable.
Alaska was mind-blowing. The scenery was incredible. The Eagle (?) numbers were astounding. Tthere they’re eating big salmon that weigh, you know, up to 6-7 pounds. Where we’re here, they're (?) eating a tiny little fish called a (魚の名前)gizzard shad which is like a size of a sardine. Theywe’re also feeding (クーツ) on coots and chasing ducks here which we didn’t see any of in Alaska. Alaska was totally specialized in salmon.
参考：
Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve
http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/units/eagleprv.htm