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!.

Saturday 15 February 2014

Izumi 1, ツル

The end of January Jaap and I drove to Izumi and stayed 2 nights to celebrate my birthday. Every year we go there to see the cranes and other wintering birds. Every year I take lots of photos and they always turn out different. This time the weather was not very good. One day it rained and the other was heavily overcast, except for a 5 min. break just after sunrise. With high ISO settings I didn't get any quality, but I made a selection for this blog anyway.



Friday night, just arrived. Cranes are moving to their roost.
A kestrel is watching the action.


Common Kestrel, チョウゲンボウ,  White-naped Crane, マナヅル

 




The next day at dawn. They are all hungry and fly over to the feeding location.

Hooded Crane, ナベヅルand White-naped Crane, マナヅル











White-naped Crane, マナヅル
















That's enough about cranes for this year.

1 comment:

  1. Hey , can check with you , if i reach izumi in the afternoon , will it still be ok for cranes watching ? cos i read online seems most ppl stated it's better to go in the morning when they feed or evening when they come back to rest. TQ

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