Red-flanked bluetail with 'Kawazu-zakura' ルリビタキと河津桜

Red-flanked bluetail

In Japan, the subspecies breed in northern Honshu and Shikoku in the summer, and in winter it winter over in the south of Honshu.

Kawazu-zakura(Cerasus lannesiana Carriere)

It is early-bloom cherry blossoms blooming from late January to February. The flowers are pink or right red, which is more pinkish than Yoshino cherry tree. The flower season is as long as 1 month.（According to Wikipedia）

                                 Images female only

Hina festival, Hinamatsuri,ひな祭り

As described in my blog of beginning of Feb 3.in 2016."Japan's historical customs, habits and entertainment in the main annual event is about ten."

"Hina matsuri" is an event becoming the third from January among 10 events.

So, about Hinamaturi ,please see installed my blog of Thursday, February 25, 2016　Hina matsuri.

This year I will introduce the famous "Hina Matsuri" Makabe-machi in Ibaraki Prefecture.

The web site is www.ibarakiguide.jp,so,copy and paste please.

   Then you click theオススメ! 旬のいばらき特集.  And next you click English language on the top bar.

Municipalities famous for the Hina Matsuri are Katsuura-shi in Chiba Prefecture and Makabe-machi in Ibaraki Prefecture.

The characteristic of the dolls' festival in this prominent city and town is that Katsuura- shi has overwhelmingly the number of dolls in only one place displaying. On the other hand, that of displayed in Makabe-machi, in 180 houses along the road respectively, so you can see various kinds of dolls.

 Below,several displays of  Makabe-machi　　　　　　

     Displays of  Katsuura-shi

Sleepy or hay fever,Daurian redstart,Jyoubitaki,ジョウビタキ

Do wild birds have hay fever, too? Is this Daurian redstart female sleepy or hay fever?
Spring is the season that to bring us sleepy to Japanese people.

And we talk to myself everybody know the famous Chinese poetry" 春眠不覚".

The English meaning of "春眠不覚" is that:

In spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn.　

The following is the full text of this poem by孟浩然Mèng Hàorán,in689 - 740

I tried translate in English

春眠不覚暁 In spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn

処処聞啼鳥 I hear singing of birds in several places

夜来風雨声 Last night there was a stormy breeze.
花落知多少Probably a lot of flowers scattered　

Short-eared owl,Komimizuku,コミミズク

Twenty days have passed since this short-eared owl have been disappeared.

No doubt I think it moved somewhere the place where to be able to catch to prey.

I hope that it will migrant again this December.

Japanese white-eye,Mejiro,メジロ

The Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus), also known as the mejiro (メジロ, 目白), is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family.

This bird species is rarely found on the ground. It is a very sociable species that may form flocks with other species, in which the birds form groups to forage during flight; white-eyes only flock with birds of other species outside of the breeding season.^[

The species is omnivorous, living on a diet of fruit from several species of flowering plants, various types of insects, and nectar at all levels of foliage. It feeds on insects by searching the leaves of flowers and scouring tree bark for larvae. (quote from Wikipedia)                    　　　　　                                                                
According to the revised law for the summary of Wildlife protection and Hunting Management ,enacted in 1963,citizens can not keep birds and animals except where they received special permission. However, about ten years ago from now the poachers were arrested in a neighboring town where I live.

The Japanese white-eye has been bred in a bamboo bird cage among maniacs to appreciate the melodious voice from ancient times.
We called this banboo gage for bird "Sashiko".