This is the second installment of a two-part series on this topic. This time is hovering and mating.
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2021年6月10日木曜日
2021年6月4日金曜日
Private car Pajero mini crash
Caused by careless the private car I drove crashed into a power pole on May 23.
When I went backward to change the direction of
the car, I collided with a utility pole standing at the end of the parking lot.
For the past ten years, many elderly car
accidents have been reported on TV and other media every day. Nearly 80 years
old, I was careful about driving, and I finally got into an accident, so I
decided to scrap the car and not drive it anymore.
As I have been to thinking to use an
electrically power assisted bicycle in the future, so I have already bought it.
2021年5月26日水曜日
Little Tern,コアジサシ
IUCN:Least Concern
It breeds in the mid-latitudes of the Eurasian continent and overwinters along the coast from Africa to Australia. It is also distributed on the Caribbean coast and the Hawaiian Islands.In Japan, it comes to the south of Honshu as a summer bird and breeds, but the number is decreasing as the number of breeding grounds decreases. Predation by crows is also a factor in the population decline.(Cited from Wikipedia)
a courtship feeding
a banded bird
Website
Information about bird banding of little tern from Environment ministry, and
Yamashina Institute For ornithology.
2021年5月19日水曜日
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher、サンコウチョウ
I was scouting out for any summer migrating birds in the park in the countryside.
At that time, I heard the call of the Japanese Paradise
Flycatcher for a moment.
Then I kept looking all around for the bird and found him
moving on the perches twig.
As the moving from twig to twig was so fast, I lost him.
So I got only two shots.
2021年5月12日水曜日
Blue-and-White Flycatcher,オオルリ
This bird is said to be in top three beautiful songbirds in Japan.
2021年5月8日土曜日
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.
2021年5月5日水曜日
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.
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