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Sorry if you clicked on this link hoping for a pic of a Woodpecker. Instead you have a little woodland shrine type thing at the foot of Hakodateyama. A female White Backed Woodpecker was in the forest near here as well as lots of Great Spotted and Japanese Pygmy Woodpeckers. Grey Headed are presumably also present but seem to be a little scarce these days-I haven't seen any in this forest for a couple of years now. A Black Woodpecker would be nice. There are some in the forests just to the north of Hakodate. Or so I'm told. The birds today were basically the same as my last vist here. Of interest today were a Common Buzzard, a Peregrine and a pair of Long Tailed Tits.One was the oh so cute white headed race (A.c. japonicus) and the almost the same as in the UK race (A.c.trivigartus:restricted to Honshu-the main island in Japan). Still hundreds of Siskin everywhere. The road skirting the foot of the mountain was open so there was a bit of traffic near the trail which was mildly annoying. Much worse was the garbage truck slowly making its way around the local neighbourhood of Yachigashira. The garbage trucks here BLAST out incredibly loud music and announcements on a 30 sec loop. The music sounds like a cross between a cellphone ringtone and a military brass band and the woman's voice on the tape is so shrill it sounds like a castrated elf. "Today is non burnable plastic items! Thank you! Blah Blah Blah! Thank you!" It's supposed to remind people which garbage to put out today. Everyone puts their garbage out the night before anyway. My music recommendations of the week-Kevin Coyne's "House on the hill". Written about a lunatic asylum (no need to be PC on a birding blog) near my hometown. And also "64 aka Go" by Lemonjelly. A pair of fine tunes.
22:08 - 5/4/2006 -
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