Birding in Japan

 Along with Black-crowned night herons (Goisagiゴイサギ) and Great egrets (Daisagiダイサギ), Grey herons (Aosagiアオサギ) have nests there too. They are...

A huge colony of herons & egrets is only 10 minutes walk away from home, yet there are so many nests in breeding season that I need to c...

 A female Japanese sparrowhawk was calling in a tree. What a beauty!!

Okusa Yatsuda Ikimono-no-sato is kind of a nature/culture reserve, manually managed organic paddy fields only 4 miles away from the centre o...

 We saw a good variety of bird species during the trip to Watarase. Male Meadow bunting (Hoojiroホオジロ) was tweeting above us while we were ha...

Watarase Yusuichi, a detention basin to store flood water and vast reedbeds surrounding the basin was the destination of our 2-day birdwatch...

One morning we saw this pair of Japanese white-eyes (mejiroメジロ) trying to bathe in our pond😅 I broke the ice later on so that birds were ab...