Kadomatsu（Japanese character;門松）

When it is (New Year January 1 in Japan for the New Year holidays, We attract attention with Kadomatsu(Japanese character 門松） at a house, a store, and the entrance of the company.

We finish a decoration too (previous year) in last year on December 30 on the date of displaying it and greet the New Year.

Details & specifically, please see Wikipedia

Images followings  all are close to my house

                                    Famous restaurant

                                             A university

                                     A big  enterprise   

                                                     My house
In addition;
  Ganjitsu(January1): the day on which the birth of the new year is celebrated.
Nobody works on the first three days of the new year. the period called sanga nichi ,or
shogatsu. Shogatsu originally referred to the whole of January, but now is used just to
refer to these three days.These days, the people go to shrines, visit friends and relatives,
drink sake, and eat special new-year dishes, called osechi .
Shimenawa, sacred rice-straw ropes,are hung across the top of the gateway, which is also
decorated with pine boughs or kadomatsu(gate pines) .
The kadomatsu symbolizes a tree provided for the descent of the gods.
This pines decoration is left in place from January the first to the seventh (until the fifteenth
in olden times), the period referred to as matsu no uchi.
            Quoted from the book "NIPPON THE LAND  AND ITS PEOPLE "                    1984   Nippon Steel Corporation             
                                                                                 

Long-tailed Rosefinch

The final upload of this year

(We express a character expression in the hiragana character, the katakana character, the kanji and the Roman alphabet.

We'll generally express the name of the wild bird by Katakana,but

For example about this bird is following

Hiragana:べにましこ

Katakana:ベニマシコ

Kanji：紅猿子

Roman Al.:Benimashiko

                                                                              Male

                                                                         Female

                                                     

Thank you for having you read this blog for half a year.

Mild influence?

I feel so warm this winter than ordinary year. I don't know the reason why,
but the flower  around my residence which have bloomed earlier than ordinary year by mild influence.


  Rape blossom(Japanese name Nanohana,菜の花）

 Camellia（Japanese name Tsubaku,椿）  

Camellia(hybrid)

Camellia(hybrid)

                                                          
  Japanese allspice(Japanese name Roubai 蝋梅）

 Red plum blossoms(Japanese name  Koubai ,紅梅）

Narcissus(Japanese name Suisen,水仙）

Common Coot

Common Coot is the symbol wild bird of Abiko city where this blog author live.

              Is a Japanese Cormorant in arbitration?

Osprey

Fish capture diving photography failed in the backlight entirely.

The hawking of my freiend(3)

A kind of Falcon Hybrid?

The hawking of my friend (2)

This blog author  who looking  in finder is tense when a pheasant jumps out. 

                             

This hawk is during molting.

                                          It seems that you'd like a communication, right?

The hawking of my friend(1)

 The distance was far and regrettable but I saw the practice carefully.
(The target is a pheasant. This title is called 鷹狩<takagari > in Japanese.)

Red-flanked bluetail(male)

In Japan, if winter comes, they will go back and forth between a shrub and the ground in the park of a plain part.