An overnighter in the mountais of Oita. Part 1: Oike

We like to go here early in the season, when the trees haven't got many leaves yet and the birds are a bit easier to see. Sometimes we get lucky and see some of the summer visitors, but this day birding was very slow. Ah well, there are always flowers...

Birds

Brown Dipper, カワガラス

Eurasian Nuthatch, ゴジュウカラ

Varied Tit, ヤマガラ

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, コゲラ

There were other woodpeckers, sometimes quite close, but I didn't get more than this:

　White-backed Woodpecker, オオアカゲラ

  :-(

Nesting Winter Wren, ミソサザエ

Flowers

Japanese fairy bells,  (Houchakusou) ホウチャクソウ

Yukizasa,  ユキザサ

Five-leaf akebia or Chocolate vine (Akebi) アケビ

Yamashakuyaku, ヤマシャクヤク

Ground-ivy (Kakidooshi) カキドオシ

Chigoyuri, チゴユリ(Japanese Fairy Bells)

Ginriousou, ギンリョウソウ

Kurumamugura, クルマムグラ

Ichirinsou, イチリンソウ

Tsukushi tanigikyou, ツクシタニギキョウ

Yamarurisou, ヤマルリソウ