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Monday 20 May 2024
Friday 3 May 2024
Ural owl (2)
Chicks that are fledglings of Ural owls
Continuing on from the previous post.
Female parent watching her chicks nearby.
Wednesday 1 May 2024
Ural owl(1)
There is a saying that the best thing to have is a friend.
I always learn
a lot from this friend about birding technology.
I can think of no other word concerning his
knowledge of birds other than 'astonishing knowledge'.
Today, I was able to capture a parent owl on camera for the
first time in quite some time.
For the first
time, this friend taught me that it is the female parent that watches over her
young near the nesting tree, and that the male is not nearby.
Be that as it may, yesterday I rode my beloved assisted bicycle 30 km around the owl's nesting site. I think to myself that I'm just mad already.
Sunday 28 April 2024
Azalea(Rhododendron)
Widely distributed, mainly in Asia, and is the national flower of Nepal.
In Japan, it can be seen in many parks, public and private gardens, mountain foothills, shrines, and temples.
Sunday 21 April 2024
Narcissus Flycatcher
Yesterday, I
heard them in two places, so I went out early this morning to take pictures of
them.
Please forgive
the slightly out of focus image as it was shot handheld.
P.S.
The Narcissus Flycatcher breeds from Sakhalin to the whole of the Japanese archipelago and neighboring areas, as well as parts of China, and is said to migrate to the Philippines, Borneo, and other Southeast Asian countries to overwinter during the winter months.
Golden week:
One of Japan's largest holiday periods of the year, Golden Week often sees a surge in vacation travel throughout the country. Despite the name, only 4 days of the week are officially designated as public holidays, with workers often opting to take the full week off.
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Cherry blossoms beginning to scatter
The weather in
the region had been continuing rainy and cloudy until yesterday, but today it
turned sunny and clear.
So I
immediately went out to photograph the 179 cherry trees on the bank of the Tone
River in the neighboring town of Tone.
The cherry
blossoms had already started to fall, and the petals were blowing in the north
wind, forming a flower snowstorm, signaling the end of spring.
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Meadow bunting
Meadow buntings are the only ones that perch there.
This year’s spring,
I tried again to photograph Meadow bunting perched on a stem of a Brassica
campestris (Brassicaceae) in full bloom on an embankment.
I went to a nearby embankment about 30 times, making several round trips along the 1 km each way, that was full of blooms, and finally managed to capture it on camera.I have been following this encountering during the flowering season of this cruciferous flower for three years and for some reason only Meadow bunting perch on cane of these flowers.
Thursday 28 March 2024
Long-tailed Rosefinch
The number of migratory birds in the region has been declining year by year, and the Long-tailed Rosefinch is one of them.
In
the same area as last year, it was feeding on willow flower buds.
Homecoming is imminent.
This
species can be found in Japan, China, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, and
Russia.
In Japan, it breeds as a summer bird in Hokkaido and the Shimokita Peninsula of Aomori Prefecture, and migrates south of Honshu as a winter bird to overwinter.
A female
A maleA female Narcissus flycatcher.
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