Aisatsu

Aisatsu

This blog is for family and friends, to share my feelings and photos with and for myself, to support my fading memory. Readers who have my site translated automatically, please refer to the original if necessary. Especially when it comes to identification. Any comments, anonymous or by email name are always welcome!.

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Touring Mt Aso, Kumamoto in October

This post has not many birds, mostly scenery. But that's what we went for this time. We'd left Fukuoka the evening before and camped out on the rim of the huge crater of which Mt Aso is just a small part. This way we had plenty of time for the first scenery shots at dawn.
It was too early for the autumn colors and the suzuki was not in full swing either, but the mist and the clouds were great and lasted a few hours.

 Views from around Daikambo


6:30 am


  6:00 am



 

7:00 am



Grasses were heavy with dew drops 





Clouds burning off at 9:00 am



Once the sun stood high the temperature rose and the day became quite warm. Butterflies added to the feeling of summer.



A Zitting Cisticola, セッカ warming up in the morning sun



with a Meadow Bunting, ホウジロ nearby



We moved on to Shirataki Waterfall near Gokase





Gokase river and village


We drove up to the top of Mt Gokase, where the ski facilities for the coming winter were reconstructed, and visibility was bad. We could here woodpeckers and other small birds, but didn't see any.

Moving on to the Tsujunkyo aqueduct



Yet a little bit of koyo autumn colors in the trees




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