銚子のカモメ

セグロカモメ（Herring Gull）
Choshi, the easternmost city in Chiba prefecture, is the best place to see gulls. However the day I visited Choshi was unusually warm and calm for February. I don't know if it was because of that, or this year is just happened to be an unlucky year, the number of gulls was not as large as we had expected; still so many.
Most of them are Black-tailed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Black-headed Gulls but if you look carefully, you will find some other species, such as Common Gull, Black-legged Kittiwake, Glaucous Gull...and if you watch really carefully, you will notice the existence of Thayer's Gull.


One of the biggest points to distinguish gulls is the color of the under side of primary feather, I learned. At first, I couldn't even understand why people can see the color of such a difficult place. Distinguishing gulls is a crazy hobby indeed!

カーリングストーン

クロガモ（Common Scoter）
デッキブラシで擦ったら動くかな。

野生動物研究会「鳥班」の卒業旅行と称して銚子に行ってきた。なんと言っても、楽しかった。
鳥類を扱う研究室がない大学なのに、4年間、鳥関係の活動ばかりしてきた気がする。そして、自称鳥班？の4人全員が、別々の研究室に入りつつも卒論で野鳥を扱っていた……ちょっとすごいと思う。

バレンタインの麦チョコ

Happy Valentine's Day!
前からやってみたかったこと、カラスウリに麦チョコを入れてみた。

冷たい朝

メジロ(Japanese White-eye)
The bird was dead in front of my place. I haven't found out the cause of death yet but I sketched and weighed it.
It only weighed 10 grams...no wonder White-eyes can perch on the fruit of Chocolate vine.

足跡

On the oral presentation day of my graduation thesis, Tokyo area was totally covered with snow for the first time this winter. I remember listening to my seniors' presentation two years ago, on a snowy day.