Japan 2-5May10

From Yamane

I have birding around my place, in the campus of National University of Yokohama. I report the birds when I watched then.

R : Resident
M : Migrator
P : Passing
B : On breeding
S : With Song

Name	Status	2/MAY	4/MAY	5/MAY
Japanese Green Woodpecker	R	O	O
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker	R	O	O	O
Chinese Bamboo Partridge	R			O
Barn Swallow	M, B	O	O
White Wagtail	R	O
Brown-eared Bulbul	R	O	O	O
Great Tit	R, B, S	O	O	O
Japanese White-eye	R, S	O	O	O
Eastern Crowned Willow Warbler	M, P, S	O
Bush Warblers	R, B, S	O	O	O
Meadow Bunting	R, B	O		O
Oriental Greenfinches	R	O	O	O
Hawfinch	R	O
Eurasian Tree Sparrow	R	O	O	O
White-shouldered Starling	R	O	O
Azure-winged Magpie	R	O	O
Carrion Crow	R	O	O	O
Jungle Crow	R	O	O	O

2 May

I send the pictures of flowers: Double Cherry Blossoms and Azalea

4 May

I could see some Thrushes there. But it was not Dusky Thrush. They have different voices. I think it's Brown-headed Thrush (Resident), Japanese Thrush (Migrator) or Eyebrowed Thrush (P).

I send the picture of the flowers of Giant Dogwood.

And I attach the sound, Bush Warbler's song, by Quick time. The song is 2 times. We can hear crow's voice and Bulbul's voice in the background.

5 May

Also today, I could not see the Thrushes there.

I observed the nest of Great Tit for 1 hour. Male and female went and came to the hole of the tree. 1 is out of the nest for about 10 min. 1 is out of it for about 5 min. For 5 min., no Tit in the nest. 2 Tits were not in it at the same time. The Tits seems to be hatching now. The babies don't hatch out yet. I attach some pictures of the Tits & the nest.