Yokohama Minato Mirai 横浜みなとみらい

The highest building(Yokohama Lamdmark Tower) in this photo is the highest building in Yokohama.

These ships in this photo are ( pleasure boats) Japanese style.

Cloudy. High 9℃　Low 6℃

I took a walk in (Yokohama Minato Mirai) in the morning. Then I met some friends in Chinatown and had a lunch. It was cheap and delicious. I had a good time.

節分 Setsubun.

炒り大豆　Roasted soybeans 節分　is the day before the beginning of spring.
The roasted soybeans-scatting ceremony celebrating the coming of spring.
Japanese people believe that they can illness and devils away by throwing beans.
We throw beans with shouting “Fortune in, devils out”. And they eat beans of the same number as their age.

円山木の頭 Enzangi no atama.

Japanese Serow.
I don't underestand the cause of this death. 馬酔木　Asebi. Pieris Japonica D. Don

馬酔木　Asebi. Pieris Japonica D. Don

Fog High 4℃　Low 0

I went to 円山木の頭 in the morning with Dr. Fukuda.

We found the dead body of a serow on my way to 円山木の頭.

A stag skull.

Cloudy. windless High10℃ Low 2℃
What happened to this stag?
Do you know the thing that happened to this? Illness? Was it shot? I don't know the reason why this died.
The view from the Isesawarindou on the way.

I went to observation of nature to Isesawarindou(伊勢沢林道） of Tanzawa with Dr. Fukuda　in the morning.
It had nearly turned into a skeleton when we found a deer carcasses. Dr Fukuda took it home.

Today's bird.

百舌　Mozu. Bull-headed shrike 　　Female

This bird has been my fave since childfood.

Fine day High12℃　Low3℃

境川 Sakai River in Kanagawa-Ken.

頬白　Houjiro. Meadow Bunting. Female 尉鶲　Joubitaki. Daurian Redstart. Female
Fine day High 12 ℃　Low 1℃

I went to Sakaigawa to look for Houjiro with the nephews in the evening.

Today's bird.

青鵐　Aoji. Black-faced Buntinig.
庭の藪の中でチィッチィッと鳴いていました。　
My favorite dish is Gramineous seed. イネ科の実が大好物です。 please click on the phots to see a more ditails. Fine day High11℃　Low0℃