Showing posts with label Eurasian Skylark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eurasian Skylark. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 June 2013

More from Tadewara

So here's some more photos from Tadewara Marsh that I haven't posted. It's a pretty nice place for enjoying holidays. The marsh is filled with Chestnut-eared Bunting's songs as well as Zitting Cisticola's, Eurasian Skylark's and Green Pheasant's. The forest around the marsh is normally slightly less lively but some nice birds can still be found, especially the Japanese Thrush which is actually quite numerous but extremely difficult to photograph.

Japanese Primrose

Japanese Primrose

Marsh Marigold

Marsh Marigold

Grey Wagtail parent with a mouthful of food

Tiny spiderhunter

Singing male Meadow Bunting

Displaying Green Pheasant


Too bad it was extremely far away



The Green Pheasant was especially common around the marsh and their loud calls could be heard all day long. Too bad none of them came close to the board walk area, so I could only get some very distant shots showing their funny displays.

The abundant Red-billed Leiothrix




I just love the tail!

Common but extremely shy Japanese Thrush

Eurasian Nuthatch race S. e. amurensis

Unknown damselfly

Eurasian Jay race G. g. hiugaensis of Kyushu

Willow Tit

It has a slightly different impression from the Hokkaido's Marsh Tit, but I still can't quite figure out how.



Zitting Cisticola in breeding plumage

Monotropastrum humile

Singing Eurasian Skylark

View of the marsh towards Mt. Kuju

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Bungo-Kokubu

On the last Sunday evening, I took a train to Bungo-Kokubu (豊後国分) to look for the male Green Pheasant which I saw from the train window on the day I went to Tadewara. I arrived around 4PM and decided to take some walk around the area. Most of the area were covered with barley fields. There were many Zitting Cisticolas and Eurasian Skylarks singing in the sky. I later found the male Green Pheasant calling next to the railway and a bit of waiting I could get some photos of it while walking along the barley field before flushing away.

Male Green Pheasant



Probably a female Eurasian Skylark carrying food for the chicks

Eurasian Skylark



I somehow think its crest looks like a crown from this angle.


One of the many Oriental Turtle-Dove