April Lock down part 2

It feels strange, right at the peak of migration, with all that free time at hand but not going out to find visiting birds. Just sometimes, getting some fresh air, having a quick look.
I won't publish these posts for a while. Not untill it's all in the past. (Sigh)

1 Wood Sandpiper, タカブシギ all by itself

A snipe, maybe Swinhoe's Snipe, チュウジシギ 

Very few shore birds and other waders, but a few Black-winged Stilts, セイタカシギ are on the move.　1 bird in a lotus field on 1 side of the river...

... another in the pond at the other side

Siberian Stonechats, ノビタキ about 7 birds in the distance. No chance to wait them out

Zitting Cisticola, セッカ

Amur White Wagtail, ホオジロハクセキレイ

Falcated Duck, ヨシガモ getting prettier by the day

April, Lock down part 1

Fork-tailed Swift, アマツバメ

Black-winged Stilts, セイタカシギ again at the lotus pond. 3 birds this time

And again 1 Wood sandpiper, タカブシギ Same bird as before?

A male Kingfisher, カワセミ working very hard to catch a meal. I wondered wether he ate it all himself

Japanese Red Fox, キツネ

Driving from Oike to Choojabaru at around 6:30 pm there were 2 cats in a field staring at something. And there it was:

キツネ, Japanese Red Fox

Mt Kuju

The lock-down is over, we are allowed to visit places again. I wonder for how long...

It has become our custom to stop on the way to Mt Kuju at this point where a trail starts to a lake. We usually walk just a few 100m to see the sunrise (if we are early enough) and always say: One day we should walk on to wherever the trail takes us. And this day we did. Unsurprisingly... the trail took us to the lake. Amagaya reservoir

First thing we saw was this beautiful snake of some sort crossing the path. Nobody screamed and we all continued our way in peace. Japanese Rat snake. Not poisonous.

Of all the dammed reservoirs in Kyushu this one seems most natural.

Lots of these butterflies that close their wings the moment they land. 

Pretty pattern on the bottem side of the wings. 

Tried to get a picture of the upper side...

Identified it as サトキマダラヒカゲ, Goschkevitchi's Labyrinth or

Neope goschkevitschii

At a dark part of the trail the クロヒカゲ,  Diana Treebrowns were active

After a pleasant 2 hours walk we moved on to Choojabaru. The usual summer birds were there, but no flowers for them to perch on yet

ホオアカ, Chestnut-eared Bunting

サクラソウ, Japanese Primrose

At the edge of the forest: ゴジュウカラ, Eurasian Nuthatch

Under the trees: ギンリョウソウ　Monotropastrum humile

Between the trees: クロツグミ, Japanese Thrush

キビタキ, Narcissus Flycatcher

アオゲラ, Japanese Green Woodpecker

オオアカゲラ, White-backed Woodpecker

キジ, Common Pheasant

バイケイソウ, False Helleborine

カケス, Eurasian Jay