Bohemian Waxwing

This wild bird, said to have been a favorite in Japan since the Heian period (794-1185), has a wide breeding distribution in the frigid zones of the northern hemisphere and is seen as a winter bird in Japan, but is most commonly observed north of central Honshu.

This year it has migrated again to a park in a neighboring city.

I immediately went to that park today and captured it with my camera.

Several birds usually fly to this park, where they are known to fly in, but today's observation showed only one bird, which repeatedly stopped to rest on a twig a few metres above, after eating the berries of its favorites plant, the Liriope muscari