Sunday, February 18, 2007

excersize birding

This Sunday, I went to Saidaiji of Nara City. it is about 40 minutes by Kintetsu railroad. This day I carrie 12X camera of Panasonic & Binoculars only. No scope, tripod & any accesorries with bag. Today's main purpose is walking and watching birds. Of course I will take photos by this small digital camera.

It was very cloudy day, I didn't see a sun at all.

today's birds:
Great tit, Varied tit, Long tailed tit, Japanese white eye, Japanese pygmy woodpecker, sky lark, siberian meadow bunting, Rustic Bunting, Japanese yellow bunting, Tree sparrow, Oriental green finch, Dusky thrush, Pale thrush, Pied wagtail, Brown eared bulbul, Carrion crow, Grey starling, Wryneck, Eastern turtle dove, Grey heron, Great Egret, Grey headed lapwing, Common coot, Smew, Spotbill duck, Mallard, Green winged teal, European wigeon, Mandarin duck, Common cormorant, Little grebe.

It was excersize birding, I walked very much, This day I was alone, so I walked and took photos, watched birds and walked again.

When I came back to the wryneck's place, there were about 6 or 7 cameramans there.
I talk to one of them, What is your serching birds, wryneck? He said, "Yes, Yes, Where is it?
I said to him, you look for wrong direction, it is in this reed field.
he said, Oh I didn't know at all, Hey, everybody come here, it is here.
I asked him, where are you all from? He said "Nagoya" , We came from Nagoya, today.
I could understand, Thy are all stranger here, so they did not know where it is.
They came right place, but they look for other direction.

Suddenly, this bird cried loudly! And It landed on a shrub.
I said, Hey everybody, it is there, it's on the shrub!
Every cameran came here and took photos, and they could get many photos.

I heard from them, they can not watch this birds easily like here.