July stuff

 A bit late, but here they are: Highlights of the month July

On the look out :  Japanese tree frog (ニホンアマガエル)

Sleepy

Cuty

Big beetles,  (オオ?)コフキコガネ、Melolontha spec.

 (オオ?)コフキコガネ、Melolontha spec.

Forest Pierrot   ゴイシシジミ  (Taraka hamada)

Monster of the month,  セスジナガキマワリ Strongylium cultellatum ??

Mamushi pit viper  (ニホンマムシ) 

Lychen

What's happening? Made a cocoon, but fotgot to enter?

Not a butterfly but a MOTH!  Epicopeia hainesii (アゲハモドキ)

EYES   Orthetrum albistylum (シオカラトンボ)

LOVERS   Swallowtail butterfly (アゲハチョウ科)

Long horned beetle  ヨツスジハナカミキリ Leptura ochraceofasciata  (4 lined flower longhorn)

Stag beetle ヒラタクワガタ (Dorcus titanus)

 and  Drone beetle アオカナブン   (Rhomborhina unicolor)

I found my firtst Jewel Beetle, Tamamushi

Tamamushi. Too high up to bring all the colors out, but it's there. I hope more images will follow.

A few weeks later: That was it. Never saw another one again :-(

Autumn Migration

August came. The wet season was hardly over, it kept on raining for so long. It felt like summer hadn't really started yet. No festivals, no fireworks, no summer parties. And no typhoons in July. Besides this Corona pandemic. It's a strange year in many ways. And now the migrating birds have started to come in. I didn't see much of them in spring, so I'm looking forward to the coming weeks.

August 2nd, 1 Golden Plover, ムナグロ

August 8th: 4 birds. A family?

Again Aug 2nd: 1 Red-necked Stint, トウネン

Aug 8th: 3 Long-toed Stints, ヒバリシギ

And 16 Grey-tailed Tattlers, キアシシギ

Between the Little Egrets,  コサギ 2 Great Egrets, ダイサギ and a Grey Heron, アオサギ there is 1 Black-faced Spoonbill, クロツラヘラサギ

I guess the bird had not gone north to breed. Too young?

Still around, the 2 Hooded Cranes, ナベツル

Many young Little Ringed Plovers. コチドリ Where do the adults go?

Common Kingfisher, カワセミ  male

The resident Magpies, カササギ fooling around like noisy teenagers