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身近な四季の記録。
Record of the familiar four seasons.

Tokyo, Japan
(I moved from Hokkaido to Tokyo in April.)
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冬羽のハクセキレイのペア
A mated pair of White Wagtails in winter plumage.❄️🪶

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
繁殖期の色をしたカワウ、だけどわりと年中見るので実際いつ時期が繁殖期なのかいまいちよくわからん。。
A Great Cormorant in its breeding plumage — but since I see that look all year, I honestly have no idea when their breeding season actually is.🤔

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
きみのおめめはどこかいな。
A Japanese tit that makes me wonder where its eyes are.😎

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
畑で落穂ひろいをするスズメ
A Eurasian tree sparrow picking up leftover grains in the field.🌾🐦

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
急な石段を登りきるとようやく姿を現す神社。キツネは神様のお使い。
At the top of the steep stone steps, a shrine finally comes into view. The fox is the messenger of the deity.🦊

Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
こちらではありふれた冬鳥だけど北海道では見たことがなかったジョウビタキ!これはメスですね。
It’s a common winter bird around here, but I’d never seen a Daurian Redstart in Hokkaidō! This one’s a female.

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
野鳥撮影スポット的な公園に行ってみたらよく訓練されたアオジが開けた場所数羽集まって人を気にせず多分撒かれた餌をついばんでいた・・・。
When I visited the park introduced as a wild bird photography spot, several unusually tame Black‑faced Buntings came out into the open and pecked at what seemed to be food scattered by people, hardly paying them any attention.😅
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
自身の内面を覗き込んで…いるように見えるオオバン
A Eurasian coot that looks as if it is peering into its own inner self.🧐

#Birds
Taken in Saitama, Japan
December 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
公園に桜に似た花が咲いていたけれど、これは桜ではなくヒメリンゴ(イヌリンゴ)の花よう。
In the park, I saw a flower that looked like cherry blossoms, but it seemed to be not cherry but plum-leaf crabapple (Malus prunifolia).🌸🍎

#flowers
Taken in Saitama, Japan
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
ホトケノザ(春の七草ではない方)は春の花だと思っていたけれど昨日普通に咲いてるのをみた。
I thought henbit dead-nettle (Lamium amplexicaule) was a spring flower, but I saw it blooming yesterday🌸

#flowers
Taken in Saitama, Japan
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
北海道では撮ったことがなかったチョウゲンボウ。こうして見ると何となくインコっぽい顔してるな。
I had never photographed a common kestrel in Hokkaido. Looking at it now, its face somehow looks a bit like a parrot’s.🦜

#Birds
Taken in Saitama, Japan
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
柿の枝にとまるキジバト。たわわに実っていた柿の実も冬になってすっかり減ったね!
Oriental turtle dove perched on a persimmon branch. The persimmons that were once abundant are almost gone now that winter’s here!🍎🐦

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
北海道にいた時よりも身近なところでよく見かけるカワセミ。まぁ生息環境が限られているので密度が高いからなんだろうけど。
I see kingfishers much more often close at hand than I did when I was in Hokkaidō. Well, since the environments they can inhabit are limited, their density ends up being higher.

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
スズメとセキレイの主な生活場所における迷彩効果
Camouflage effect in the primary living environments of sparrows and wagtails👀

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ついうっかりヨーグルッペ(北海道のやつ)のCMを見てしまったら歌が頭にこびりついて離れない例の現象に・・・助けて!
I accidentally watched this Yoghurppe (lactic acid drink) commercial, and now the song has become an earworm. Help!🤣

Hokkaido Hidaka Dairy Yogurt "Singing at the Factory"
youtu.be/cZU5At2e7fc?...
北海道日高乳業ヨーグルッペ 「工場で歌ってみた篇」
YouTube video by 南日本酪農協同株式会社 Dairy【公式】
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
そしてこちらも冬に咲く花として知られるツワブキ
And this too is known as a winter-blooming flower, Tsuwabuki (Leopard plant)🌼

#flowers
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
冬に咲く桜、十月桜
Cherry blossoms that bloom in winter, Jūgatsu-zakura🌸

#flowers
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
昼間はいつも眠そうなゴイサギ
In the daytime, the night heron is ever drowsy.😴

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
荒川沿いの大きな公園の池にいたゴイサギとバンの幼鳥
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron and juvenile Common Moorhen in the pond of a large park along the Arakawa River.🐥🐥

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
河川敷を舞っていた雪虫。晩秋に姿を現すことと綿毛を纏ったその姿から冬の使者とも呼ばれる虫。
Yukimushi (snow bug) fluttered along the riverbank. Appearing in late autumn and clad in cottony fluff, they are also called the “messengers of winter.”❄️

#insects
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
潜ったカイツブリが浮いてくる場所を予測して待ち構えていたけれど思ったより近くに浮上してきたので色々と間に合わなかった写真。
A photo where I anticipated where the little grebe would resurface after diving, but it popped up closer than expected and I couldn’t quite get ready in time.😅

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
頭の赤い羽根がちらっと見えていた雄コゲラ
A male Japanese pygmy woodpecker, with a glimpse of red feathers briefly visible on his hea🪶

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
たった今撮った今年最後の満月
Just captured the year’s final full moon🌕

Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
電線に囲まれたコサギ
A little egret encircled by electric wires.⚡

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
こちらも何となく似たポーズのメジロとエナガ。
Here too, a Japanese white-eye and a long-tailed tit in a somewhat similar pose.🐥🐥

#Birds
Taken in Tokyo, Japan
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM