To get some body-clock-reviving sun after arriving, we went to Hamarikyu Gardens near our hotel.
The lake there had Spot-Billed Duck*, Great Cormorant, Little Egret, Little Grebe, Tufted Duck, Shoveler. In the air, Black Kite, Tree Sparrow, Carrion Crow, Great Tit and White Wagtail.
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| Spot-Billed Duck |
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| White Wagtail |
Travelling out to Mitaka for the Ghibli Museum, in the lovely park we added Oriental Turtle Dove, Brown-Eared Bulbul*, White-Cheeked Starling* (which had looked like Mynas to me yesterday).
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| Oriental Turtle Dove |
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| White Cheeked Starling |
A Grey Heron flew past, 20 stories up in central Tokyo.
On a day trip to Kamakura and Enoshima, we saw Long Tailed Tit, Large-Billed Crow*, Dusky Thrush*(ecunumus) and a distant duck which zooming reveals as Greater Scaup*.
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| Greater Scaup |
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| Large Billed Crow |
Then deep into the Alps, and at Tsumago we saw Japanese Robin*, Grey Wagtail, Barn Swallow. And on the 13km walk from Magome to Tsumago and Nagiso JR, Jay, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker*, Peregrine, Meadow Bunting (thought it was Alpine Accentor initially, but strong head-stripes), Japanese Grosbeak*. Also a weird mammal called a Serow.
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| Grey Wagtail |
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| Japanese Wagtail |
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| White Cheeked Starling |
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| Brown-Eared Bulbul |
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Barn Swallow
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At the station I finally figured out that the ringing call we have been hearing everywhere is the Japanese Bush Warbler* (apparently and appropriately, considered a sign that spring is here).
In Kyoto, along the Philosophers Walk, Japanese White-eye*, Varied Tit* and Mallard. (30,11)
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| Varied Tit |
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| Japanese White Eye |
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