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!.

Wednesday 30 March 2016

Eurasian Wryneck, アリスイ

What a surprise. First time for me to see it in Japan. My memory of a previous sighting is so blurry... I call this a lifer! Jynx torquilla





These unusual birds are able to turn their snake-like head nearly 180 degrees, hence their English name.


When threatened they twist their head, making hissing sounds, like a witch putting a spell on someone in the old days. This gave them the name jynx.






They use their long tongue to find ants and other insects.








Visiting a Sakura tree... but it has no flowers...



On the same day: Sakura in full bloom and a Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, コゲラ busy making a nest.




 Out at sea: Pelagic Cormorants, ヒメウ


  


Black-throated Loon (Diver), オオハム   far out


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