Ural owls, about time deparent

 Since the latter half of last year, the number of migratory birds and resident birds has been small in this area(these are my opinion), and I have been depressed every day. In such a circumstance, I was able to take some pictures of juvenile Ural owls the day before yesterday.

One parent bird watching over juveniles

Four consecutive flowers of water -lily

 

Narcissus Flycatcher

 The narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is native to the East Palearctic, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Borneo. It is highly migratory and has been found as a vagrant from Australia in the south to Alaska in the north. （Cited from Wikipedia） 

When the water lily of the restaurant Kajiiketei garden's pond near my house begins to bloom, the narcissus flycatcher comes over near here to the forest. By the way, when the weather is nice, I go out to take migratory birds every day, but I rarely see them. This is my first time in a year like this. According to what I heard the other day, as many as 100 photographers were there to take pictures of the fledgling owls.

Japanese wisteria

 Wisteria floribunda

The wisteria flowers are the flowers of trees that begin to bloom around the end of April here in Japan. It is a kind of flower with a wide range of cultivation purposes. 

Wisteria floribunda, a common name Japanese wisteria (藤, fuji), is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Japan. Growing to 9 m (30 ft), it is a woody, deciduous twining climber. It was first brought from Japan to the United States in the 1830s. Since then, it has become one of the most highly romanticized flowering garden plants. It is also a common subject for bonsai, along with Wisteria sinensis (Chinese wisteria). （Cited from Wikipedia）

 According to this site, https://www.ashikaga.co.jp. You can be available in English on this web.It is saying this is the most beautiful great wisteria in the World

the fence of a house

                                                 in a park

                                              in a plum garden

Osprey

  A pair of being flying

The osprey is the second most widely distributed raptor species, after the peregrine falcon, and is one of only six land birds with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is found in temperate and tropical regions of all continents, except Antarctica. ( Cited from Wikipedia)

Above: female

                                                                   Below: female 

I will restart this blog

The grey-faced buzzard has begun to nest close to my residence also this year.

The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey. It is typically between 41 and 46 cm in length, making it a medium-sized raptor. It breeds in Manchuria, Korea, and Japan; it winters in Southeast Asia. ( Cited from Wikipedia)

The Ministry of the Environment of Japan has been specifying this wild bird as VU.

 

To announce

 Hello dear readers.

I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who has been web surfing on this blog.

I turned 80 this January and taking this opportunity, I have decided to close on this blog.

And,to commemorate 80 years old, a new blog which is named"Wild birds and flowers in the Tokyo metropolitan area of Japan" has started.

https://www.yosi85kawa.blogspot.com

                                     Thank you very much for visiting my blog for a long time.