Macroglossum pyrrhosticta. These insects are flying between flowers like bees from early summer to late fall.
撮影した鳥の写真やいただいたお札を紹介しています。 Here are some pictures of birds we have taken and some amulets we have gotten.
2021/10/31
トビ
一度、ソフトクリームを食べ歩きしているときに飛びかかってきたことがある。お店の人にトビが取りにくるから気をつけて、と言われていたけれどそんなにしょっちゅう来るもんかな?来たら手でトビの足をつかんじゃおうなんてのんきに歩いてた。そしたら一瞬のできごと。手に鋭い爪の感触と耳に羽がバシッと当たる感触があったと思ったら、もう結構な高さまで飛びあがったトビが見えた。羽の音なんてまったく聞こえなかった。すごいすごいと騒ぎながらもう1回を期待して無事だったソフトクリームをさし上げながら歩いたけど、もう取りにはこなかった。
Black Kite. I almost had my ice cream taken away by a Black Kite a few years ago. As we were walking along eating the ice cream, I suddenly felt a sharp claw digging into my hand, and the next moment I saw a flying kite above us. I couldn’t hear any sound. It was an amazing experience for us.
カラスとトビ
Jungle Crow and Black Kite. A jungle crow and a black kite saw each other, we wondered what they were doing. After about ten minutes they flew away, and we checked that point. A fish that someone caught left it there.
イソシギ
Common sandpiper. They fly just above the surface of the sea, so it is difficult for us to take pictures of them.
2021/10/24
兵庫県岡太神社
Okata shrine is near the famous Koshien stadium.
カワウ
Great Cormorant.Great Cormorants and Japanese cormorants are very similar. We can finally tell them apart by checking the photos we took.
メジロ
Warbling white-eye.They normally move quickly between the branches, but in spring or autumn they stay in one place to eat blossom’s honey or the fruit of a ripe persimmon. So we can take pictures of them.
モズ
Bull-headed Shrike.We think that we can see these birds especially in spring or autumn. They have a distinctive call and the tail feathers that often move like a circle.
2021/10/23
ケリ
Grey-headed lapwing.We can often see this bird in the rice field after the planting or harvesting is completed.
2021/10/17
チョウゲンボウ
Common Kestrel.We can see this bird even in a city but we can't always and easily see it. When we took these pictures it perched on a tree behind us.
ヒタキ
Grey-streaked Flycatcher. Dark-sided flycatcher. Asian brown flycatcher. It is very difficult to tell what kind of bird it is, because there are individual differences among birds. Even if we think it is a Gray-streaked Flycatcher because of the vertical stripes on its chest, it may be an individual of another species with vertical stripes.
ハシブトカラス
Large-billed crow.Of course, we can see these birds anywhere and anytime, so we don’t normally take pictures of them. But when we will actually take pictures of them, it is unexpectedly difficult because they quickly run away.
大阪府四天王寺
Shitennoji Temple.This temple is very old and popular in Osaka. We didn't know that we could get the Ganzan-amulet in this place before. This temple doesn't belong to any special sect in Buddhism, so it is called “Washu”.
2021/10/10
雉キジ
Japanese Pheasant. We can see this bird in our neighborhood. It is the national bird of Japan.
ヤマガラ
Varied tit.We've heard that this bird can get into people's hands. However, we have never seen such a lucky situation before.
オオユウレイガガンボ
Crane fly. This insect was swinging strongly in the dim light of the forest. In fact, we had never known its name before.
2021/10/03
シジュウカラ、メジロ
We don’t know why birds like this shallow rain gutter. After a rainy day, some birds come to this spot.
ミサゴ
魚を捕まえたミサゴ
雨の中を飛ぶミサゴ
雪の舞う中を二羽で飛ぶミサゴ
雪の舞う中を飛ぶミサゴ
曇り空を背景に魚を捕らえて運ぶミサゴ
ミサゴの目は前向きについているんだと感心
全身をきれいに撮ることができた
これも青空を背景に全身をきれいに撮ることができた
魚を捕らえて飛んでいくミサゴ
Osprey.We wonder how an osprey can find a fish floating on the surface. We saw an osprey catch a fish once, but we couldn't take a picture of it then.