Monday, August 28, 2006

Autumn is just around the corner

Well I thought I would be blogging on a more reugular basis than this, but it seems that once the initial novelty has worn off and the realization has set in that no-one is ever gonna bother reading it...you can't be arsed most of the time.

But since the long hot summer is coming to a cose and I have managed to get out birding the last few weekends, I thought I would share a few pics of the nice Painted Snipe I saw over the last two weekends.






I visited two sites, one is a small mudflat in Hatsukaichi City. A Greater Sand Plover, Redshank and Turnstone had been reported there, all scarce in Hiroshima..but off course all had gone. I was left with the blazing hot sun, a few Red-necked Stint, Dunlin, Greenshank, Whimbrel, Grey-tailed Tatler, Terek Sandpiper among the commoner Kentish Plover.. and after 10 minutes found myself sticking to the tarmac between the cracks...yuck!

A visit to Minami-Iwakuni, an area of Lotus fields, produced little of note, with it still being early in the season, and many areas remained uncut. Among the hordes of Moorhen, herons and Egrets were a few waders, a couple each of Green, Wood and Common Sandpiper, a few more Little Ringed Plovers and a very photogenic pair of Painted Snipe in the same place as an immature bird last week. As the tide receded on the nearby estuary I was able to find 5 Whimbrel, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Terek Sandpiper and 8 Great Knot, as well as a few Black-tailed Gulls and the off fishing Osprey. I missed the best two birds of the weekend, a Black-browed Reed Warbler (rare here) and a Swinhoe's Egret reported among the large numbers of 'white' egrets and Night Herons. Still no snipe either.

A few weeks back I did manage to add Grey-headed Lapwing to my Hiroshima list from the back of a cab...but not much else to report birdwise. Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll be adding some more images of other autumn migrants,,,big and small.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Matterazzi vs Zidane

Zi...summer!

Well, well, wel, well well!

Can't believe I have had nothing to say for 2 months!

Is my life that empty?

No, the opposite really, been doing too much shit of late, learning JAPPERS,

so I can write stuff like this:

僕のちんちん  は で会 です!

Also watching England's humiliation in the World Cup on penalties for the umpteenth time, then seeing France throw it all away to those cheating, diving Italian mother#$"%"s.

Still we were left with some highlights.....see what happened to Zidane and Materrazi for real:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGFVhzmnYWg

Just gonna sweat out the summer, turn 35, feel one year older and no wiser and get pissed and have some fun on my biffday weekend init!

maybe I should post some long overblown polemic on the whole messed up Israel-Hezbullah mess, but I won't...suffice to say, the whole world turns a blind eye once again while Israel dputs Lebanon back 10 years, and systematically destroys 100's of 1000's of peoples lives, including their own citizens..idiots! There and I said I wouldn't say anything.

Well better rest now, tis late and I am away to me pit!