Japanese Waxwing,ヒレンジャク

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

It inhabits in North-east Asia and can be seen as a winter bird in Japan.

Wintering ranges are Japan, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, southern China, Taiwan, etc., but the number of arrivals is extremely irregular depending on the year. In Japan, it stays in the area north of central Okinawa from November to May. In contrast to Bohemian Waxwing, which is common in eastern Japan, Japanese Waxwing is more common in western Japan and is rarely seen in Hokkaido.( reference source Wikipedia) 

It drinks rainwater pooled in the tree crotch.

Ａ Japanese waxwings feeding on berries of Liriope muscan.       

Ａ Japanese waxwings feeding on berries of Ophiopogon japonicas

Rosefinch,オオマシコ

The Pallas's rosefinch (Carpodacus roseus) is a species of bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is found in China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, and Russia. Birds are occasionally reported from further west and there are records from several European regions, including Britain, but the cage-bird trade makes the origin of some such birds hard to assess. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and boreal shrubland.( Cited from Wikipedia)

                                     a female

                                   a male

Short-eared owl flying over field mustard flower、菜の花の上を飛ぶコミミズク

Ｏn the way return north home

As I thought that I intended to go to a nearby embankment to begun practice shooting birds with new gears, I went there the other day.

As soon as I arrived, I encountered a short-eared owl flying over around the embankment.

The short-eared owl left shortly after, but in the embankment partly was in full bloom with flowers of the foreign plant such as kind of mustard plants.

A short-eared owl flying over the field mustard plant flowers was the first shot for me.

Yesterday, I went out to the same place to photograph again, but the owl did not show up again despite the good evening without the wind.

 The prey must be a mole.