Kyoto University Botanical Garden 4-09-2012

Kyoto University Botanical Garden  4-09-2012

Sunny,  about 6 degrees C,  Slightly windy, 8:30 am - 9:00 am

With Beginners' Birdwatching group (6 members)

Birds seen:

Little Egret:  1 (it was scratching the bottom of the pond with its feet to stir up food, and and caught and ate something)

Tits: more than 2 heard singing (2 different songs; perhaps Varied Tit and Long-tailed Tit, but not sure of the species)

Japanese White-eye: heard twittering in a group in camellia trees, but not seen)

Brown-eared Bulbul: more than 7, calling and feeding in a tall, blossoming  cherry tree

Japanese Grosbeak: 2 singing

Rufous Turtle Dove: 2 heard cooing

Japanese Bush Warbler: 1 heard singing, and later scolding

Tree Sparrow: many chattering in grassy weeds

Carrion Crow: 1 sitting in a nest in a tall, leafy tree (could see only its tail sticking out of the nest, and  1 cawing in tree nearby (perhaps a nesting pair?); also, 3 flying west high overhead