Yellow bittern；Chinese little bittern,ヨシゴイ

I went out twice this month to photograph Eurasian bittern, which is classified as Endangered IB (EN) by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment's Red List of Birds, but It's audible calling but invisible.

I was disappointed I couldn't shoot Eurasian bittern, but I took three kinds of wild birds, such as Yellow Bittern, Great reed warbler, and a Hwamei that I saw the first time.so I will upload them.

        a  Eurasian bittern,this taken June in 2014

                                             a Yellow Bittern

                                         a Great reed warbler

 A battle Yellow Bittern and Great reed warbler

                                     a Hwamei 

Spot-billed duck,カルガモ

According to the description of Wikipedia Japanese language,

Spot-billed duck is inhabited in the People's Republic of China, Japan, the Amur region, and the Korean Peninsula. In Japan, as a resident bird, it mainly inhabits south of Honshu.

Every year, you can see cute spot-billed duck chicks that were hatched near the water lily pond of a private residence near my house.

Ural Owl,フクロウ

This is the second installment of a two-part series of this topic.

These images are seven days have passed after fledging.  

Ural owl、フクロウ

It is widely distributed in the northern part of the Eurasian continent from Scandinavian Peninsula to Japan .

It lives in temperate to subarctic coniferous forests, mixed forests, wetlands, pastures, cultivated lands, etc., and is highly resident as a resident bird. 

In Japan, it is a resident bird that is distributed from north of Kyushu to Shikoku, Honshu, and Hokkaido, and inhabits forests, farmlands, grasslands, and satoyamas  such as plains, low mountains, and subalpine zones. It can be seen in shrines and forests with large trees .（Cited from Wikipedia described in Japanese）

I have been observing nesting of owls for 8 years in this spot during owl juvenile fledging season,

but I was able to observe the fledging for the first time this year.

The tree cavity nest was different from the one I had been thinking for a long time.

Day one after fledging

                                    The tree cavity

                                      A parent

                                      Day four after fledging

Carp

"Koinotakinobori,鯉の滝登り" which means carps are swimming up a waterfall. However, this scene is not so, but swimming down a small waterfall.

The carps that have seemed to finished spawning.

The carps go down while resisting the flow without leaving themselves to the flow, and after that get back into the normal stream.