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!.

Friday 30 December 2022

December birds, the last of 2022 part 2

Continued from part 1


female Kestrel, チョウゲンボウ ♀





male Kestrel, チョウゲンボウ ♂








 
At the mudflats: Common Sandpiper, イソシギ




The Spoonbills, 3 Eurasian, ヘラサギ and 1 Black-faced, クロツラヘラサギ



Grey Plover, ダイセン forgot to migrate south?





Northern Lapwings, タゲリ and Spot-billed Ducks, カルガモ





More ducks: Gadwall, オカヨシガモ









Shelduck, ツクシガモ




Here for the 3rd year in a row now, Albi Po, a leucistic Common Pochard







Great Cormorant, カワウ



Black-headed Gull, ユリカモメ



juvenile




Blue Rock Thrush, イソヒヨドリ



Dusky Thrush, ツグミ in Imazu. I head to wait quite some time to see you there!

December birds, the last of 2022 part 1

 It's a whole lot of small stuff, nothing unusual, except for the Ferruginous duck maybe. And the Smews.


Baikal Teal,トモエガモ; Ferruginous Duck,メジロガモ and a Pochard, ホシハジロ in the snow




Smews, ミコアイサ on a cloudy day





again, on a sunny day






Chestnut-eared Bunting, ホオアカ





Common Reed Bunting, オオジュリン











Zitting Cisticola, セッカ



Buff-bellied Pipit, タヒバリ





Japanese Bush Warbler, ウグイス




Thursday 29 December 2022

Kanatake walk, December 20th

 It was cold on our last walk of the year. As expected there were few flowers and no butterflies. Birds were more heard as seen. The tea party in the end made the day festive and everyone seemed happy, except for Mr. S who was not well and stayed home.


Eastern Buzzard, ノスリ proudly perched 





Daurian Redstart, ジョウビタキ resting on the ground. Tired? Cold?





female Bull-headed Shrike, モズ fluffed up to stay warm



An impaled frog, ready to be consumed by the owner, Mr or Mrs Shrike
モズのはやにえのカエル



Not all bugs were absent. Bagworm, ミノムシ



Caterpillar of Winter moth, キリガ 幼虫



Another caterpillar



Under the leafs of a forgotten plant: Caterpillar of Small Copper ベニシジミの幼虫



as well as a Stinkbug, カメムシ



Sticking out of the stem of a tree:
moth chrysalis, ガ の さなぎ 







Fungi





Maiden's Blush, ハツユキツユクサ





Platycarya strobilacea, ノグルミ


Kadsura japonica, サネカズラ