Squirrel

Chitose, Hokkaido. 22th/Apr/2012.

Morning

I went birding only morning last Saturday.

Red Squirrel.

Summer visitors came to Sapporo.
In this time, I only took photo of only Short-tailed Bush Warbler.

Surprisingly, Brown-eared Bulbul caught a cicada. I was aware cicadas already emerged they will sing in a few days. Summer is comming, though it is still cold.

Carrion Crow.

Sapporo, Hokkaido. 14th/May/2011.

Intra family competition

I found a Chipmunk in Maruyama park, Sapporo. Did it recover its hibernation in this season?

 !!!!!

 Of course, lager one wins the contest.

Goldcrest.

Sapporo, Hokkaido. 2/Apr/2011.

Chase

I found chasing of two Squirrels.

They repeated chasing on a pine tree. I wonder they are male and female, it is preparation of mating.

Breather.

Tomakomai, Hokkaido. 2/Dec/2010.

Other birds in Tokachi

This day, my friend organize sea bird research in Tokachi, but it was canceled because of bad weather. So I wandered around Tokachi to see birds.

Japanese Crane breed in yard of farmer's garden. It is said that "Every farmer has a pair of Japanese Crane in Eastern Hokkaido."
This photo is a juvenile born in this season.

A Harbor Seal and a fisherman.
Fundamentally, Harbor Seal has very cautious for human, but this individual is very tame to human. I uploaded previous entry.

I moved to other spot of birds.
A Squirrel greet me.

In this site, I found a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
I saw it six year ago. It was my pleasure.

Toyokoro and Obihiro, Hokkaido. 28/Nov/2010.

Morning in TOEF

I got up early and walked around Tomakomai Experimental Forest.

Common Kingfisher.

Hokkaido Squirrel (sub-species of Eurasian Red Squirrel) didn't change its fur yet.

Male Mallard's is changing its plumage  non-breed to breed plumage now.

Common Teal.

Tomakomai, Hokkaido. 1/Oct/2010.

Prepare for winter

Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris orientis) collects acorn.


And It hides their acorn under the litter.

"Did you see my acorn?"


Photo in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Nov,15,2009

Siberian flying squirrel

photo in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, 5/Jul/2009

Two Siberian flying squirrels (Pteromys volans) were in a bird house which was built for bird reproduction research.

Later, we observed them go out from the nest.

Their eyes were retouched to remove of the red of the eyes.

Siberian Chipmunk

30/May/2009 Tomakomai, Hokkaido

I went to Utonai Lake on last Saturday.

I walked on there trail for birding, suddnely he or she dashed out.

It was seemed to be young.

Begin a weblog

I start a new weblog for animal watching; Mammals, Birds, reptiles, and Amphibians.

I am a Japanese, but this blog is written by English to train English writing.

I live in Hokkaido, Japnan. So I'll bring up animals in Hokkaido mainly.

Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris orientis, subspecies in Hokkaido, Japan.