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, 10 June 2025

Mt Kuju area

On the last day of May, the pink flowers of Miyanma Kirishima were at their peak, and 100s of people climbed the trails to take pictures. I had no intention of climbing that day. I just wanted to wander around and check my points. But it was a bit of a challenge!


Among the sound of bear bells and laughter, the songs of Eurasian Wrens, ミソサザイ











High up in the trees, mostly out of sight, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, オオルリ



Heard from afar, Common Cuckoo, カッコウ



At the usual plant tops in the field, Chestnut-eared Bunting, ホオアカ



Waiting for some tall flowers



Narcissus Flycatcher, キビタキ






Diana Treebrown, クロヒカゲ



Japanese Dart, キマダラセセリ



Pallas' Sailer or Common Glider, コミスジ



Large Biston moth, キオビゴマダラエダシャク Biston panterinaria sychnospilas?



Ebine Orchid Calanthe species?



Common Oreorchis, コケイラン



Golden Orchid, キンラン



Other flowers:  False Helleborine, バイケイソウ





Silver Dragons, ギンリョウソウ





フタリシズカ, Serrate-leaf Chloranthus     Chigo Lily, チゴユリ




Silver Dragons, ギンリョウソウ





Guttation



Fungi

Crown-tipped Coral mushroom, フサヒメホウキタケ





Yellow Stinkhorn fungus, キイロスッポンタケ



Mica Cap, キララタケ





Sap trees and their visitors: Little Stag Beetle, コクワガタ



A bunch of four-spotted treesap sucking beetles: 
Yotsuboshi Ookisui, ヨツボシオオキスイ, Helota gemmata  and  Yotsuboshi Keshisui, ヨツボシケシキスイ, Librodor japonicus



Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles フトカミキリ
Sawyer Beetles spec. ヒゲナガカミキリ属



At the end of the day, a herd of Japanese Sika Deer, シカ crossed my path.




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