Blue-and-White Flycatcher,オオルリ

The blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) is a migratory songbird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The species is also known as the Japanese flycatcher. It breeds in Japan, Korea, and in parts of north eastern China and the Russian Far East. It winters in South East Asia, especially in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sumatra, and Borneo. This species has been recorded as a vagrant from the Sinharaja Rainforest in Sri Lanka in 2014.（Cited from Wikipedia）

This bird is said to be in top three beautiful songbirds in Japan.

 

Ochre-rumped bunting,コジュリン

 The Japanese reed bunting or ochre-rumped bunting (Emberiza yessoensis) is a bird in the family Emberizidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863.It is found in Manchuria, Korea, and Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and swamps. (Cited from Wikipedia)                 　　　　　　　　　　 

Ochre-rumped bunting is listed as a vulnerable species by the Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan, and will be appeared about when wheat ear emergence in this area.

Tango no sekku (May 5): the Boy’s Festival,端午の節句

  Tango no sekku is one of in the ten Main Annual Festivals in Japan.

This festival is the Boy’s Festival for expressing the hope that each boy in the family will grow up healthy and strong.　Warrior figures are set up in the house during this festival, iris leaves are placed under the eaves to fend off evil, and huge carp-like streamers are fastened to poles. Special rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves are eaten on this day. However, in recent decades, fish-like streamers installations have disappeared almost anywhere in the countryside despite which have plenty of spaces.

Japanese Bush Warbler；Japanese Nightingale,ウグイス

 This bird’s call is said to be one of the three most beautiful birds call in Japan

According to Wikipedia

Depending on the definition of the range of species, the distribution area varies slightly, but roughly inhabits East Asia.

It is also distributed in the Hawaiian Islands, but it was imported from Japan.

Resident birds are distributed almost all over Japan. However, individuals in cold regions move to warm regions in winter. It has a wide range of environmental adaptability, as it inhabits from flatlands to alpine high pine belts. He prefers bamboo-rich forests and bushes, but may also appear in open areas during the call. The English name "Bush Warbler" means a bird singing in the bush. Be alert and often invisible even if you hear birds call.

Eurasian jay,カケス

 The bird call of the European jay is inseparably linked with Japanese mystery drama with a cottage in the forest.

This bird call is a call that makes you feel like something is happening, and when it call there is always an incident in the drama.

Quoted from Wikipedia ⇊

Distributed from central to southern Eurasia in northern Africa. In Japan, resident birds that breed north from Kyushu and inhabit the north move to the south in winter. The number of individuals that move from year to year varies, which is thought to depend on the number of nuts they feed on (when the amount is small, they move in search of food). 

Search for acorns on the ground

Take out the acorn hidden in the bark

Find the hidden acorn 

Grey-faced buzzard、サシバ

 A couple of Grey-faced buzzards, which are thought to have migrated here for breeding last year, have come again this year.