Kamogawa River at Demachiyanagi Station, November 26, 2013

8:30 - 9:00 am, Cloudy, About 12 degrees C

Birds seen:

Mallard 3

Gray Heron  2

Great Egret 1

Little Egret  2  (the large group we saw last week was not there today)

Black Kite  1

Japanese Wagtail  2

Tree Sparrow  6

Kyoto University Botanical Garden, November 25, 2013

8:30 - 9:00 am, Light intermittent rain, About 12 degrees C

Birds seen:

Black-faced Bunting  1

Brown-eared Bulbul  8

Japanese Grosbeak  15

Crow  5

Also saw the fresh, black feces of an animal (perhaps a ferret: there are ferrets living on the campus) on a path in the garden

Kamogawa River at Demachiyanagi Station, November 19, 2013

8:30 - 9:00  am, Mostly sunny, About 15 degrees C

Birds seen:

Eurasian Wigeon  6

Mallard  4

Spot-billed Duck  3

Pintail  4

Little Egret  About 20, in a group lined up all across the river just downstream from a shallow waterfall. Usually Little Egrets are solitary, but I have seen such groups in previous years in this river in this season.

Black-headed Gull  12 (My first sighting of them this winter)

Black Kite  7

Japanese Wagtail  3

Brown-eared Bulbul  6

Tree Sparrow  12

Yoshida Jinja, September 30, 2013

Yoshida Jinja, September 30, 2013

8:00 - 9:00 am, About 23 degrees C, Mostly sunny

Birds seen:

Brown-eared bulbul  8

Pale Thrush  1

Brown Flycatcher  2

Japanese White-eye  5

Crow  8

Kyoto University Botanical Garden, September 9, 2013

Kyoto University Botanical Garden, September 9, 2013

8:30 - 9:00, Sunny, About 25 degrees C

Birds seen:

Bulbuls  More than 10

Japanese Grosbeak  More than 10

Japanese White Eye  6

Tree Sparrow  More than 10

Kyoto University Botanical Garden, August 5th, 2013

Kyoto University Botanical Garden, August 5th, 2013

8:30 - 9:00 am, Partly cloudy, About 24 degrees C

Birds seen:

Black-crowned Night Heron 1 (perched on branch overlooking the pond)

Rufous Turtle Dove  1

Pigeon  1

Crows  3 (heard)

Yoshida Jinja, June 17th, 2013

Yoshida Jinja, June 17th, 2013

8:00 - 9:00, Mostly cloudy, About 24 degrees C

Birds seen:

Black Kite  1  (soaring)

Great Spotted Woodpecker  1  (juvenile)

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker  2 (juveniles) together pecking on a tree

Japanese Bush Warbler  2  (singing)

Japanese Tit  2  (singing)

Long-tailed Tit  6  (mostly or all juveniles) foraging together in a tree

Tree Sparrow  8 (including some tiny fledglings)

Crow  6