Oriental dollarbird

 It is said that as it can hear the croaking sound that croaks "bu-pou-sou,bu-pou-sou" in the night, it became just so like the name.

So after that, until today, we are calling this bird Japanese name "bu-pou-sou"

In fact, it doesn't croak like that.

Oriental dollarbird who don't come to the Kanto area for breeding from southeast Asia almost.

The Kanto region where I live includes the capital Tokyo, but I don't know in the past Dollarbird came for breeding in this region.

Four of us, to take photos of these birds, went to Nagano Prefecture which is 200km away from our residence for the first time in one year.

Tenryu village in this Nagano prefecture is a well-known place for Oriental dollarbird breeding, The nest boxes have been supported by municipal nest one supplied for a long time.

So, they became come every year here for breeding.

According to Wikipedia,

The oriental dollarbird is found from Australia to Japan and India. It breeds in northern and eastern Australia between the months of September and April and winters in New Guinea and nearby islands. The birds prefer open wooded areas with hollow-bearing trees to build nests in.

You can see the chicks on TV live installed in the hotel.

A released short message about oriental dollarbird by Tenryu village

Only the one hotel in Tenryu village 

Tenryu village is like this located

You can't stay here even for one hour, because the floor of the dam gate is iron, heat wave.

One artificial nest box on the roof of the dam office building

A photographer’s exhibition

The Joban Line railway bridge, which straddles Abiko City where I live in Chiba prefecture and Toride City in Ibaraki Prefecture, has long been well known as a nesting site for common kestrels. You can see that several groups can be seen nesting on this railway bridge every year.

Fumio Ogawa, who lives in Toride city, is an amateur photographer who has been shooting wild birds and has been shooting the ecology of this kestrel for a long time.

This time with the support of Toride City, this private exhibition of wild birds has begun exhibit published.

The exhibition will be held for fourteen days.

I have never seen a scale exhibition of 100 images of wild birds in such a large facility by an individual amateur.

I was impressed!

The upload of the exhibition contents had been approved by Mr. Ogawa.

Fall on the river is a rare sight. we can"t Kestrel swims are rarely seen.

 

Ural owl

Forty-four-second movie for a juvenile Ural owl perched tree.

This juvenile Ural owl is keeping itself through the strong wind.

 

Yellow bittern

 I due to the news received from somebody that the Cinnamon bittern, that habitats in the Nansei Islands in the southern part of the Amami Islands, came flying into a swamp in the prefecture, so I went there three days in a row to take pictures of the bird.

However, the Cinnamon bittern didn't show up for 3 days.

Then I decided to take photos of the yellow bitters which were there, that are breeding in the northern Indian Subcontinent, east of the Russian Far East, Japan, and Indonesia.

A great white pelican standing at the bow of a boat is called "Kanta Kun" 

To take Cinnamon bittern picture, fifty amateur bird photographers came here 

Little Tern

 Little Tern, listed as a least concern by the IUCN Red List category, has arrived here from southern countries also this year. The number of arrived seems to be smaller than last year,　and they began to start a nest.

a small plane that took off from a civil airport close to the nesting site

juveniles silver carp close to the nesting site