Saku, Komoro and Karuizawa in Nagano, June 5-6, 1998

• good company,
• despite departure in the rain, and a rainy Saturday night, we had pleasantly fresh and dry, albeit cloudy weather.
• an unexpected wild plant dinner prepared by Ikeda-san and Nakayama-san.
• an abundance of cuckoos in numbers and variety.
• nice mountain forest at various altitudes with all kinds of flowers.
• a ryokan with the most orange-browniest water I have ever seen, absolutely opaque.

Participants Neil Fergussson, Honda Chikako, Ikeda-san, Katayama Shuusaku, Nakayama-san, Tokita Kenichi and Fer-Jan de Vries.

Weather: we were lucky with to dry days, following rainy days. Cloudy, fresh temperature about 12 on Sunday. Saturday night rain in the early night.

1. Spot-billed duck Anas poecilorhyncha [Karu-gamo]
2. Northern Goshawk Accipter gentilis [Oo-taka]
3. Ural owl Strix uralensis [Fukurou] Calling in dark near
4. Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus [Kiji]
5. Copper Pheasant Yama-dori [Phasianus soemmerringii]
6. Rufous turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis [Kiji-bato]
7. Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus [Kakkoo]
8. Oriental cuckoo Cuculus saturatus [Tsutsudori]
9. Little cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus [Hototogisu]
10. Horsfield's hawk-cuckoo Cuculus fugax [Juu-ichi]
11. Jungle nightjar Caprimulgus indicus [Yotaka]
12. White-throated Needle-tailed Swift Chaetura caudata [Hario-amatsubame]
13. House Swift Apus affinis [Hime-amatsubame]
14. Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda [Akashoobin]
15. Great spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major [Akagera]
16. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos kizuki [Ko-gera]
17. House martin Delichon urbica [Iwa-tsubame]
18. Red-rumped swallow Hirunda daurica [Koshi aka-tsubame]
19. Barn swallow Hirundo rustica [Tsubame]
20. Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea [Ki-sekirei]
21. White wagtail Motacilla alba [Haku-sekirei]
22. Indian Tree Pipit Anthus hodgsoni [Binzui]
23. Ashy minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus [Sanshou-kui]
24. Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus [Iwa-tsubame] This was the first time for me on Honshu that I could see that underside of these martins appeared "greyish", instead of pure white
25. Red-rumped Swallow Hirunda daurica [Koshi aka-tsubame]
26. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica [Tsubame]
27. Brown-eared bulbul Hypsipetes amaurotis [Hiyodori]
28. Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus [Mozu]
29. Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii [Kawagarasu]
30. Winter wren Troglodytes troglodytes [Misosazai]
31. Japanese robin Erithacus akahige [Komadori]
32. Siberian blue robin Erithacus cyane [Koruri]
33. Siberian bluechat Tarsiger cyanurus [Ruri-bitaki]
34. Siberian thrush Turdus sibiricus [Mamijiro]
35. White's ground thrush Turdus dauma [Tora-tsugumi]
36. Brown thrush Turdus chrysolaus [Akahara]
37. Gray thrush Turdus cardis [Kuro-tsugumi]
38. Gray thrush Turdus cardis [Kuro-tsugumi]
39. Pale thrush Turdus pallidus [Shirohara]
40. Bush warbler Cettia diphone [Uguisu]
41. Short-tailed bush warbler Cettia squameiceps [Yabusame]
42. Goldcrest Regulus regulus [Kikuitadaki]
43. Crowned willow warbler Phylloscopus occipitalis [Sendai-mushikui]
44. Arctic warbler Phylloscopus borealis [Meboso mushikui]
45. Pale-legged willow warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes [Ezo-mushikui]
46. Narcissus flycatcher Ficedula narcissina [Ki-bitaki]
47. >Asian Brown Flycatcher Ficedula latirostris [Ko-same-bitaki]
48. Blue and white flycatcher Cyanptila cyanomelana [Ou-ruri]
49. Great Tit Parus major [Shijuu-kara]
50. Willow Tit Parus montanus [Ko-gara]
51. Coal Tit Parus ater [Hi-gara]
52. Varied Tit Parus varius [Yama-kara]
53. Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus [Enaga]
54. Nuthatch Sitta europaea [Gojuu-kara]
55. Siberian meadow bunting Emberiza cioides [Hoojiro]
56. Black-faced bunting Emberiza spodocephala [Aoji]
57. Japanese Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata [Nojiko]
58. Oriental greenfinch Carduelis sinica [Kawarahiwa]
59. Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula [Uso]
60. Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata [Ikaru]
61. Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes [Shime]
62. Tree sparrow Passer montanus [Suzume]
63. Gray starling Sturnus cineraceus [Mukudori]
64. Jay Garrulus glandarius brandtii [Kakesu]
65. Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyana [Onaga]
66. Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes [Hoshy-garasu]
67. Jungle crow Corvus macrorhynchos [Hashibuto-garasu]

• Japanese Squirrel Scurius lis [Nihonrisu]
• Sika Deer Cervus nippon [Shika]
• Red Fox Vulpes vulpes japonica [Kitsune]

• Convallaria keiskei
• Polyganatum sp
• Iris sanguina
• Iris pseudacorus
• Anemone sp.
• Anemone yezoensis
• Aquilegia buergeriana
• Corydalis decumbena
• Schizocodon soldanelloides
• Primula japonica
• Cornus canadensis
• Duchesnea chrysantha
• Veronica tenella
• Pyrola incarnata
• Arisaema serratum
• Arisaema thunbergii