And as an added bonus, here's a regular visitor to the blueberries. I don't know what kind of bird he is, but he's very pretty and quite assiduous in fertilizing the ground under the blueberries.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Kingfisher
Recently I spotted a kingfisher fishing in our local river, the Konogawa. It was the biggest kingfisher I've ever seen.
And as an added bonus, here's a regular visitor to the blueberries. I don't know what kind of bird he is, but he's very pretty and quite assiduous in fertilizing the ground under the blueberries.
And as an added bonus, here's a regular visitor to the blueberries. I don't know what kind of bird he is, but he's very pretty and quite assiduous in fertilizing the ground under the blueberries.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Various scenes
I got an iPhone a few months ago, and I'm quite impressed with the photos it takes. Here are a few recent ones.
From our balcony. There was some precipitation at sunset.
The temple thingie. November storms tore the doors off and broke the glass,
but the day after I reported the tragedy to the village headman, they were as new again.
Not a bad spot for a house.
The weather has been quite weird of late, with some spectacular skies.
This lopped-off double rainbow with triangular sunbeam was one of the
more spectacular phenomena. It lasted for about 5 minutes and was hard to ignore.
Mikan trees, lakes, sea, islands
From our balcony. There was some precipitation at sunset.
The temple thingie. November storms tore the doors off and broke the glass,but the day after I reported the tragedy to the village headman, they were as new again.
Not a bad spot for a house.
The weather has been quite weird of late, with some spectacular skies.This lopped-off double rainbow with triangular sunbeam was one of the
more spectacular phenomena. It lasted for about 5 minutes and was hard to ignore.
Mikan trees, lakes, sea, islands
Crime scene
I went for a walk at lunchtime the other day up the valley where a French fellow and his wife are building a new house (very international we are here), when I came upon this grisly scene.
It's a tanuki with a smallish hole in its rump (it probably felt like a largish hole to the tanuki in question).
The question is, whodunnit? There are certainly hunters around here because I've seen them with their guns, but I don't think they'd shoot a tanuki, nor would they leave it lying dead on a pavement. Would a boar be able to gore a tanuki, and would it have reason to do that? The corpse was gone the following day.
It's a tanuki with a smallish hole in its rump (it probably felt like a largish hole to the tanuki in question).
The question is, whodunnit? There are certainly hunters around here because I've seen them with their guns, but I don't think they'd shoot a tanuki, nor would they leave it lying dead on a pavement. Would a boar be able to gore a tanuki, and would it have reason to do that? The corpse was gone the following day.
Round pond resurgens
In April last year, I took out my round pond and replaced it with a bath. Having pondered (ha!) where to put it next, I decided that the very place where it has sat since April would be fairly ideal.
So I dug a hole with a remarkably perfect shape for the steel pot, and rolled it in.
A well-dug hole.
Note the long-handled, small-headed spade which I cobbled together myself.
Now I'll just have to avoid falling into it in the dark.
Two ponds now. Boy will the frogs be happy!
So I dug a hole with a remarkably perfect shape for the steel pot, and rolled it in.
A well-dug hole.Note the long-handled, small-headed spade which I cobbled together myself.
Now I'll just have to avoid falling into it in the dark.
Two ponds now. Boy will the frogs be happy!
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