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!.

Sunday 22 September 2019

Kanatake walk, September 18

With temperatures around 24°C it was a pleasant walk with lots of interesting things to see. Several times raptors could be seen flying overhead and we counted 33 birds, most likely migrating Oriental Honey Buzzards, ハチクマ



The Bull-headed Shrikes, モズ had returned and 6 birds were seen and heard.



Of the 14 species of birds the Little Grebes stole the show with 5 chicks!


FLOWERS etc
Orange Ginger Lily, (Nikuiroshukush) ニクイロシュクシャ



Large Forest Ghost Flowerr, (Onanbangiseru) オオ ナンバンギセル



Great Burnet, (Waremoko) ワレモコウ



Nosasage, ノササゲ fruit and flower



Tankiri mame, タンキリマメ The Japanese name apparently means killing phlegm, but an interesting article at Useful Tropical Plants’ homepage suggested it killed sperm and could be used as an effective and safe contraception! Is it Tankirimame タンキリマメ or Tokirimameトキリマメ? 



Kitsune no mago, キツネノマゴ – a kind of Water Willow



Young and still green, Sanekazura or Binankazura, サネカズラ ビナンカズラ



Udo, ウド also known as Mountain Asparagus



Hiyodorijoogo, ヒヨドリジョウゴ - kind of Nightshade 



??? Umatsunagi kusa ウマツナギ???
Correction: アレチヌスビトハギ (Arechinusubitohagi) which is native to NE America, where it's called Panicledleaf Tricklefoil



Nusubitohagi, ヌスビトハギ  The seed have the shape of thief’s footprints, hence the Japanese name



Fruit of Harlequin Glorybower, (Kusagi no mi) クサギノミ



INSECTS etc

Chinese Bushbrown, ヒメジャノメ



Japanese Oakblue, ムラサキシジミ





Pallas’ Sailer or Common Glider, (Komisuji) コミスジ



Oriental Longheaded Grasshopper, (Shoryobatta) ショウリョウバッタ



One of Japanese Rice Grasshoppers: Hanenagainago, ハネナガイナゴ



Juvenile Inago locusts, イナゴ



Common Bluetail, (Aomon Itotombo) アオモンイトトンボ



Below a caterpillar of a moth. Could it be the Ookimadara Meiga Moth we saw on the same plant?





Ookimadara Meiga, オオキマダラメイガ



I learn a lot on these walks with Fukuoka's nature experts. This for example is the shedded skin of a spider. The spider is not there, it's not a dead spider either. クモのヌケガラ


But it seems to have eyes!



Small male Rhinoceros Beetle, (Kabutomushi) カブトムシ



Larva of Prominent moth, シャチホコガの幼虫  (shachihokoga no yochu)



Siebold’s Globular Snail, (Usukawa Maimai) ウスカワマイマイ



Peacock Pansy, (Tateha Modoki) タテハモドキ





Stinging Nettle Caterpillar Iraga, イラガ
Extremely beautiful up close. But comes with a warning: extremely painful when stabbed!











And when I went back for another look I saw another one:
Blue-striped Nettle Caterpillar, ヒロヘリアオイラガ



Walker’s Cicada, (Tsukutsukuboshi) ツクツクボウシ



Don't have any names for fungi, just pretty images. This one is pink



Grass Lizard, (Nihon Kanahebi), ニホンカナヘビ




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