Aisatsu

Aisatsu

This blog is for family and friends, to share my feelings and photos with and for myself, to support my fading memory. Readers who have my site translated automatically, please refer to the original if necessary. Especially when it comes to identification. Any comments, anonymous or by email name are always welcome!.

Tuesday 28 May 2013

Springtime in the Botanical Gardens 3

A few more scenes of Minami Koen and the Botanical Gardens


Blue-and-white Flycatcher,  オオルリ





Carrion Crow,  ハシボソガラス


A crow stole a bag of lollies from an inattentive birder.


What did he do? He took it to higher ground. 


Opened the bag.


Took out lollies one by one


And….


 Burried them in the undergrowth!
PS. The female joined him later. Did he have something to please her!


Sunday 26 May 2013

Springtime in the Botanical Gardens 2

More of the same birds at different days in and around the park


Japanese Paradise Flycatcher,  サンコウチョウ 
(didn't get to see much more of it残念です)



Asian Brown Flycatcher,  コサメビタキ



Varied Tit, ヤマガラ




Female Yellow-throated Bunting,  ミヤマホオジロ



Winter Wren,  みそさざい



Eyebrowed Thrush,  マミチャジナイ



White-cheeked Starling,  ムクドリ



Black-faced Bunting,  アオジ female



Japanese Grosbeak,  イカル


Saturday 25 May 2013

Spring time in the Botanical Gardens 1

At 4:00 it gets crowded at the pond. Most common birds come for a bath.
I often wonder what birds fly in after 5 o'clock, when the gardens are closed...


Female Yellow-throated Bunting,  ミヤマホオジロ



Pale Thrush,  シロハラ





Varied Tit, ヤマガラ



Japanese White eye, メジロ

 



Brambling,  アトリ



Grey Bunting,  クロジ





Japanese Great Tit,  シジュウカラ



Eurasian Siskin,  マヒワ



Black-faced Bunting,  アオジ  male and female

 



Monday 20 May 2013

Brambling, アトリ and Hawfinch, シメ


The migrating season is nearly over. This is what stopped by:

Brambling,  アトリ


female



male




Hawfinch,  シメ











One daring little bird stopping right in front of the lens to pick up its favorite seed







To be continued



Tuesday 14 May 2013

Grey Nightjar ヨタカ の ショートステー


One lucky day in the park.
After debating where to go for the day, the islands, the mountains, Imazu, we opted for Minami koen and the botanical gardens. And we got lucky. On top of this Nightjar we saw a Japanese Thrush and 2 or 3 Japanese Paradise Flycatchers. These last two moved too fast, too hard to capture, but the Nightjar sat very still.

Grey Nightjar  ヨタカ


Nearby, but hard to detect





Sleeping most of the time


鼻の穴 hana no ana, nostril 






Keeping an eye on the bug 

 What Insect is this?




And crows overhead 


Sound asleep again, till we left at the end of the day.
The next day he was gone.


今日の勉強   眠っています= sleeping