投稿の詳細: 怖い思い　Fear　I felt

ある巨峰の畑で剪定をしていたら
隣のりんご畑の中、
50ｍほど前方を散弾銃を
持ち、オレンジ色の救命胴着みたいな
ベストを着た猟師がただならぬ
気配で通ってゆく。耕作放棄地
に集まる鳥を狙っているようだ。
鳥達も察してそれぞれ飛び立ったり、
雉等は私のいるほうに駆け足で
逃げてきたあげく、
私と目が合ってあわてて
飛び去ってゆく。猟師からは
私が見えるのかどうか、
散弾銃を打たれたら
当りかねない。明日の新聞の
見出しが一瞬頭をよぎる。
そのうち鳥を追うのを
あきらめたのか、私に気づいたのか
来た方向に帰ってゆく。

(りんごの樹の向こうに見えるオレンジ色のべスト）

(右手奥の車に戻る猟師）

その場所は猟師仲間ではきっと良く知られた
穴場なのだろう。車を農道に止めて
忍び足で躊躇なく向かってゆくのだから。
りんご畑とはいえ私有地なんだけどな～。
こんなところで猟をするつもりなのか。

その耕作放棄地と私の巨峰畑は、
いわゆる「飛行場」で、
「うまいれ」という進入道路が無く
他人の畑を通らなければ行くことが
できない。農薬散布や収穫には
りんご畑を通らせて貰っているが、
結構気を使う。車を入れられないから
不便で、専業でもない限り
見捨てられたままだ。雑木や
葦が生い茂り此方に勢力を拡大して
くるし、猪のねぐらになったり
することもあるだろう。
まさか猟師も出没するとは思わなかった。

When I was pruning in a kyoho vineyard,
I noticed two hunters wearing lifevest like
orange vest and holding shotguns in their
hands passed very quietly around 50m
away from me. The strange air filled
the space and many birds flew away from
the direction to which they were heading
for. Phesants ran towards me and suddenly
stopped to have found me in front
and flew away to the different direction.
The hunters seemed to come to the abandoned
farm adjacent to my kyoho vineyard.

They either having given up
chasing the birds or noticed me walked
away slowly. Tomorow's newspaper heading sparked
in my brain when I thought of their firing.
I wondered if they have seen me.

The abandoned farm should be a well know
place for hunters because they just parked
their car on the nearby small road and went
the farm without hesitation. The apple farm
where they waled through was a private one
and they were not supposed to do trespassing.
Is the hunting allowed around here ?

The abandoned farm and my kyoho vineyard
are so-called a runway and they do not
have direct access from nearby road.
One cannot reach there without going throug
somebody's land. I got permit from the
landlord and I go throught the apple
orchard when I spray or harvest or whenever
I need to. But even so, that bothered me
a lot. Many of such runway farm are abandoned
unless the farmer is full time farmer.
Usually they farm is left untouched then
many woods or reeds fill the land and
tend to invade to the neighboring farm.
It might become a next for a wild bore, too.
I did not expect hunters would frequent
to the place for hunting.