Kamogawa River at Demachiyanagi Station 4-03-2012

 Kamogawa River at Demachiyanagi Station  4-03-2012




Just starting to rain,  about 6 degrees C,  8:30 am - 9:00 am

Birds seen:


Great Cormorant:  2

Mallard:  8  (4 male/female pairs)

Spot-billed Duck: 2 (a male/female pair)

Little Egret:  2 (both had long plumes drooping from their nape)

House Martin (I think they are House Martins, but am not sure; maybe instead they are Tree Swallows but are flying so fast I can't see their reddish throats or their long, forked tail feathers):  more than 10, flying around fast and low over rapidly flowing water in rocky riverbed

White Wagtail:  2

Japanese Wagtail:  2

heard 1 Great Tit singing

Japanese White-eye:  5 (in a group in willow trees)

Gray Starling:  5

Crow:  6 scattered in distant trees (Jungle Crow?  Carrion Crow?  not sure how to tell the difference from such a distance