Hattori Ryokuchi Koen 5-4-2012

Hattori Ryokuchi Koen  5-4-2012


8:30 - 10:30,  Mostly cloudy,  About 16 degrees C

Birds seen


At Uzuwa Pond:

Little Grebe  1 (nesting)


Moorhen 1

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

Great Tit (singing in tree)


At Shingu Pond:

Great Cormorant  1

Spot-billed Duck  2 (possibly a male-female pair)

Rufous Turtle Dove  2 (a nesting male/female pair, I think) in a low tree overhanging the pond

Great Tit  1 singing in tree



In tall pine trees near Shingu Pond:

Gray Heron  1 male/female pair nesting (continually making a loud, stacatto clacking noise while
                     keeping their bills within a few centimeters of each other
                     -and- 1 Gray Heron in the next pine tree, often calling (squawking out from the edge of
                     the tree overlooking the pond).. to whom was he/she calling, and why??

At Naka Pond:

Common Kingfisher  1  flying often across Naka Pond or to a pond across the road, and seeming to
                                   look for fish, unsuccessfully (probably one of a 
                                   male/female pair nesting at Naka Pond, I was told

In Japanese Garden:

 Spot-billed Duck  a group of 3 that looked immature (much yellow on face), eating (algae?)

White-cheeked Starling:  6  eating on ground among fallen leaves


In Wild Bird Woods:


Japanese Grosbeak:  Many singing in a chorus