Oriental stork/Japanese white stork：コウノトリ

 It's been a continuing hot day around 34 degrees Celsius, even though it's already the beginning of autumn.I heard it's going to be continued throughout this week. Ｉtook these shots in the usual countryside for early morning in the mid hot and humid.After shooting, if I enlarge the image, it has a bird ring, and after a closer inspection, it was found that it was an individual released from the stork facility in Noda City on July 15 of this year.Suddenly I remembered a stork with GPS attached that I took in the same countryside last year of November.But this one was not attached GPS.The wild storks in Japan became extinct in 1971, and today artificially bred individuals have been releasing in the fields. Most recently, it was observed for the first time breeding naturally in eastern Japan (Watarase retarding basin) this year.

The stork that first time to came this countryside from China in 2004.

 Bird photographers, birdwatchers, media, citizens, etc.about 250 people who have come to watch the stork on December 27, 2004 .