Touring Mt Aso, Kumamoto in October

This post has not many birds, mostly scenery. But that's what we went for this time. We'd left Fukuoka the evening before and camped out on the rim of the huge crater of which Mt Aso is just a small part. This way we had plenty of time for the first scenery shots at dawn.
It was too early for the autumn colors and the suzuki was not in full swing either, but the mist and the clouds were great and lasted a few hours.

 Views from around Daikambo

6:30 am

  6:00 am

 

7:00 am

Grasses were heavy with dew drops 

Clouds burning off at 9:00 am

Once the sun stood high the temperature rose and the day became quite warm. Butterflies added to the feeling of summer.

A Zitting Cisticola, セッカ warming up in the morning sun

with a Meadow Bunting, ホウジロ nearby

We moved on to Shirataki Waterfall near Gokase

Gokase river and village

We drove up to the top of Mt Gokase, where the ski facilities for the coming winter were reconstructed, and visibility was bad. We could here woodpeckers and other small birds, but didn't see any.

Moving on to the Tsujunkyo aqueduct

Yet a little bit of koyo autumn colors in the trees

October nokorimono

も１１月です. １０月のまだ　ブログに　入ってない　写真が　けっこう　あります.

time flies

井原山で　撮った　捨身

  

 

  

  

元気な　おじいさんは　おいくつ　だろう？

話はできませんでした。　耳が聞こえませｎでした。

deafは　日本語で　耳が遠い？

オランダも遠い．．．

Roots strolling on the beach at Hokuzan Lake

One Sunday I went to Tenjin and watched Daimyou Daiko playing  -  ohisashiburi.

With Jaap to Mt Kuju where we did a mini hike in the autumn forest. A little climbing, not too much, it felt good to be able to do this again.

Suzuki Sunset

The following day at the Kikuchi River. Morning mist

End of October in Imazu, the spoonbills have arrived.

今日の勉強　　写真　を　撮る　＝　shashin o toru

                           耳が遠い　＝　mimi ga tooi

Flowers of Mt Aso and Mt Kuju

 

FLOWERS OF Mt ASO AND Mt KUJU

 

Sept 1st I drove all the way to the kojurin field and Chojabaru after which I accidently deleted half the photo's (all birds) from my memory card.

たいへん!!
 

 サイヨウシャジン saiyoushajin,  Adenophora triphylla  japonica

ハイメドハギ  haimedohagi,  Lespedeza juncea. serpens

 

オミナエシ omenaeshi,  Patrinia scabiosaefolia

 

サワギキョウ  sawagikyo,  Lobelia sessilifolia
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Can anybody tell me the name?

 

ヒゴタイ higotai,  Echinops setifer

                 balls of little windmills

Mt Aso 2

 

Another visit to Mt Aso, end of August. 

A pair of busy Japanese Reed Buntings were seen flying around their nesting

site, carrying a variety of insects.

コジュリン  =  Japanese Reed Bunting 

コジュリンは ひなのための かたつむりを つかまえた

鳥を飛んだ間に見た虫 

 

今日の勉強は  飛ぶ = tobu

mushi to hana

Mt Aso の 虫 と 花です。名前は 何でしょうか?

What's in the beauty of an uitgebloeide paardebloem?

 

今日の勉強は  虫 = むし,  花 = はな, 名前 = なまえ