ヤツガシラ This year my friend kindly chose my design as her new year gift bag. My mother says that my hoopoe looks like My Fair Lady, or even Oiran, Japanese courtesan. And its legs are just like those of Lautrec's dancer.
飛鳥Ⅱ It was really lucky. On the date I visited the Osanbashi pier, Yokohama with my friend, MS AsukaⅡ, the biggest cruise ship in Japan, was there. She was about to begin her cruise to Guam and Saipan. One of my dreams is to go abroad on a cruise boat, which doesn't have to be a luxurious liner like Asuka.
カワウ(Great Cormorant) This was my forth time to participate in the annual Christmas Cormorant Count, a researching event to map out the morning foraging sites of Greart Cormorants around Gyotoku area. This year, I was stationed on the bank of Edogawa river before dawn and saw a flock of more than 300 cormorants coming up the river, crossing over the housing area to the Shin-nakagawa river. It was really exciting to track the same flocks by keeping close contact with those researchers at nearby observation points.