Osaka Nankou Bird Sanctuary

Osaka Nankou Bird Sanctuary (Osaka Nankou Yatchoen) 3-25-2012

9:30 am - 1:30 pm

Mostly sunny,  7 degrees C,  Windy

Ocean: Slightly rough (white caps about 2 m); Tide at 9:30: high (mud flats covered up to reedy areas)
                                                                           Tide at 1:30: lower (mud flats partially exposed)

Went with: Osaka Branch members of Wild Bird Society of Japan (total number about 10)

Birds seen:


Great Cormorant: 3

Gray Heron: 7

Mallard: 2 (1 male and 1 female (pair))

Spot-billed Duck: 23

Pochard: 1

Eastern Marsh Harrier: 1

Kentish Plover:  more than 10

Herring Gull: 2

Rufous Turtle Dove:  4

White Wagtail:  3

Brown-eared Bulbul:  more than 40

Bull-headed Shrike: 1

Daurien Redstart:  1

Japanese White-eye:  more than 5

Oriental Greenfinch:  2

Tree Sparrow: 5

Gray Starling: 5

Carrion Crow:  2


Other wildlife seen:


Quite a few really cute, gray, skinny little lizards (about 6 cm long, with much of that 6 cm consisting of a long, snakey tail that gives them their name: Kanahebi (in Japanese), meaning a kind of "snake". They were escaping as a group away from my footsteps as I walked down a grassy hillside. This is the first time I've ever seen them  :-)