Bird watching in Tokyo, Japan

 Tokyo has good places for birdwatching. Machida is accessible by the Odakyu Line from Shinjuku, and the JR Yokohama Line between Yokohama and Hachioji.
 Machida is a good place for birdwatching too. Machida city is the western part of the metropolitan area of Tokyo, Japan.  The city was founded on February 1, 1958. The population of the at that time was 60,000. Now it grows in a city with colorful charm naturally, and the population also keeps developing beyond 420,000 people on today.

人口が多い東京にもバードウオッチングのポイントがいくつもあります。今回は町田駅の側を流れる境川で撮影しました。電車を降りて少し歩くとカワセミが飛んでいます。

These pictures were taken on April 2016.

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カワセミ

Common Kingfisher

Alcedo atthis

ダイサギ

Great Egret

Ardea alba

コサギ

Little Egret

Egretta garzetta

アオサギ

Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

ジョウビタキ

Daurian Redstart(male)

Phoenicurus auroreus

Daurian Redstart (female)

ハクセキレイ

Japanese Pied Wagtail

White Wagtail

Motacilla alba lugens

キセキレイ

Grey Wagtail

Motacilla cinerea

セグロセキレイ

Japanese Wagtail

Motacilla grandis

シジュウカラ

Japanese Tit

Parus minor

カワウ

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

コガモ

Common Teal

Anas crecca

カルガモ

Grey duck

Spotbill duck

Anas poecilorhyncha

オナガガモ

Northern Pintail

Anas acuta

ツグミ

Dusky thrush

Turdus eunomus

カワラヒワ

Oriental Greenfinch

Carduelis sinica

スズメ

Tree Sparrow

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

アオジ

Black-faced Bunting

Emberiza spodocephala

セグロカモメ

Herring gull

Larus argentatus

ムクドリ

White-cheeked Starling

Sturnus cineraceus

シロハラ

Pale Thrush

Turdus pallidus

ロマンスカー

Romancecar

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Japanese foods are good and safe.

Because of stricter food safety law by Japanese government, we have no worry about foods.

Hakone Hachirigoe Cake

箱根八里越え饅頭

 5 years have passed since Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. I have visited various places of Japan to see the health consequence of the accident.

 Fortunately I have never found any impacts by the nuclear power plant accident among Japanese creatures. As far as I know, nobody has health problem which is caused by the accident in Japan.

 Our Prime Minister Abe assures that "The situation is under control. The influence of the contaminated water is completely blocked within Fukushima. There are no health-related problems until now and there will never be health problems." He also said that "Tokyo is 250 kilometers away from Fukushima, and the kind of danger that you imagine does not exist in Tokyo. Tokyo is a very safe city."

 As PM Abe said, Tokyo is very far away from Fukushima, people in Tokyo have no concern about the nuclear power plant accident. People in Tokyo have already forgotten the accident, because they think radioactive materials cannot reach there.

 We know there is no problem for childbirth and child rearing in Tokyo. So people in Tokyo are living without any concern about the nuclear power plant accident.

 I continue to visit various places in Japan to see the effects of the accident, because I can meet various creatures which are more sensitive to radioactive materials from the environment. It is important to see their health for our safety.

公衆衛生ネットワーク

Public Health Network in Japan

http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/phnet/

Bird watching in Hawaii on March 2015

Bird watching at Waikiki HI, USA

 I visited Waikiki HI, USA to see biological impacts of Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant accident. Though I have visited various places in Japan to see the health consequences of the accident, I have never found any effect against creatures in Japan. However, there is a little concern that radioactive materials will be brought to overseas by the wind or ocean current. So I have wanted to see the effects against overseas too and I visited HI, USA.
  Located on the south shore of Honolulu, the world-famous neighborhood of Waikiki was once a playground for Hawaiian royalty. Known in Hawaiian as "spouting waters," Waikiki was introduced to the world when its first hotel, the Moana Surfrider, was built on its shores in 1901. Today, Waikiki is Oahu’s main hotel and resort area and a vibrant gathering place for visitors from around the world. Though Waikiki is not so famous for bird watching place, we can see variety of birds living in there and we can enjoy bird watching too.
 Generally speaking, animal's growths are so fast than human beings that they are more sensitive to radioactive materials of the environment than us. So I visited Waikiki to see effects of the accident against creatures which are grown up by Hawaiian food and water. Fortunately, I could see them grown up safely and I couldn't find any impact of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. It seems that there is no problem for childbirth and child-rearing in Hawaii, USA.
Posted by Yoshitaka Kiriake from Japan on May 12, 2015.


米国ハワイ州のワイキキは世界有数の都市化された観光地である。ここでは豊かな自然が保護されており、人間と多種多様な野生動物たちとが共存している。野鳥の種類は驚くほど豊富で野鳥観察（バードウォッチング）も楽しめる。

 These pictures were taken on March 2015.

WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA

Waikiki beach

RED-CRESTED CARDINAL

RED-VENTED BULBUL

RED-WHISKERED BULBUL

YELLOW-FRONTED CANARY

COMMON WAXBILL

COMMON MYNA

SPOTTED DOVE

ZEBRA DOVE

DOVE

CATTLE EGRET

BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (immature)

PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER

House sparrow (male)

House sparrow (female)

Hibiscus

Sunset

Hawaiian foods are good and safe.

No one have any worry about foods.

Steak and shrimp

Pancake

Sushi

 4 years have passed since Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. I have visited various places of Japan to see the health consequence of the accident.

 Fortunately I have never found any impacts by the accident among Japanese creatures. As far as I know, nobody has health problem which is caused by the accident in Japan.

 Our Prime Minister Abe assures that "The situation is under control. The influence of the contaminated water is completely blocked within Fukushima. There are no health-related problems until now and there will never be health problems." He also said that "Tokyo is 250 kilometers away from Fukushima, and the kind of danger that you imagine does not exist in Tokyo. Tokyo is a very safe city."

 As PM Abe said, Hawaii is very far away from Fukushima too, people in Hawaii have no concern about the nuclear power plant accident. Hawaiian people have already forgotten the accident, because they think radioactive materials cannot reach there.

 We know there is no problem for child birth and child rearing in Hawaii, USA. So Hawaiian people are living without any concern about the accident.

 I continue to visit various places in the world to see the effects of the accident, because I can meet various creatures which are more sensitive to radioactive materials from the environment. It is important to see their health for our safety.

公衆衛生ネットワーク

Public Health Network in Japan

http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/phnet/