8:30 - 9:00, Cloudy, about 21 degrees C
Birds seen:
It was really fun to see chicks and juveniles of several species newly out of the nest and learning to make their way in the big world of the Kamo-gawa River....
Great Cormorant 1 juvenile, fishing, and later preening
Mallard 4 male/female pairs; and 1 female with her 4 ducklings (already adult-size) feeding on plants in the river
Little Egret 3 (one of which looked immature (had a fluffy little upturned tail) and kept running after the Great Cormorant noted above while the cormorant was fishing)
Great Egret 3
Gray Heron 2
Barn Swallow 8 (including some immature (had short tails)) catching insects while flying above the river)
Japanese Wagtail 6 (including one singing atop a willow tree)
Tree Sparrow many (maybe 25, including many juveniles)
Gray Starling 9 (all together in one willow tree)
Carrion Crow 8 (most flying high in the sky in small groups, but one feeding among the small stones on a rocky sandbar in the Kamo-gawa River)
(All images were downloaded from the internet. Many thanks to the photographers.)
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