Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

At 6 o'clock the morning, unfamiliar voices from somewhere on the Sumida River Terrace of Ishikawajima Park are echoing.

If you look closely, you can see a black silhouette near the center of the river surface.

It's bigger and plump than Mr. Kawau, what is it?

Even if you use the telephoto of the camera in the backlight of the morning sun, you will not be able to determine its identity.

Fortunately, we are gradually approaching the flow of the Sumida River.

If you reach a certain distance here, you will return to the middle of the river again.

After such a repetition several times, what is their identity captured by the camera!

Four young birds from black-tailed gull.

The silhouette of the beak clearly seen when facing sideways is exactly that of black-tailed gull.

But is the color and pattern of the wings covering the body discovered a new species? It's different from adult bird, which is just mistaken.

black-tailed gull often picks fish that serve food at fishing ports.

It is an image of flying in groups near the fishing port.

(As an aside, seagull is migratory bird and a winter bird, so it is not in summer.

All birds like seagull that we witness in the summer are seabirds.)

As you all know, it sounds like a mecher and a cat.

In kanji, it is described as a sea cat, but the English name is Black tailed gull because it has a black belt on the white tail.

Here's adult bird.

Mrs. black-tailed gull and others as you imagine.

Well, where did these young birds come from?

Is it from a breeding ground along the Kanto region? I'm not sure.

black-tailed gull is one of the world's largest cities in Japan.

Sakhalin, Chishima Islands, Mainland China Coast to Taiwan.

It is a rare bird in the world

Five breeding grounds in Japan, including Kabushima Island in Aomori Prefecture and Tsubaki Island in Iwate Prefecture, are designated as natural monuments.

Only those that hatched in breeding grounds and grew from young bird to young birds appear in each fishing port in summer.

black-tailed gull seems to have a very high sense of territory, and the parent bird attacks another chick approaching the nest.

The chicks also get wounds until they die.

The young bird who came to this Sumida River was

It seems to be elite in the elite that has survived for about two months since hatching.

black-tailed gull takes three years to breed from young bird to adult bird.

It seems that it can be identified for several years from that feather.

Mr. black-tailed gull in the upper right of the photo above is still gray and some of his wings are brown.

It can be seen like the second year.

The breeding adult bird will return to the breeding ground at the end of February next year, but the young birds will winter.

It is divided into a group that can be observed all year round on the Sumida River and a group that returns to a breeding ground.

The more you know, the deeper you are, Mr. black-tailed gull.

How old are you from now on? I would like to observe it while thinking about it.

 

 

Something happens when walking on a rainy day!

Would you like to say that the promise you have made in the last six months?

On this day, I passed through Aioi Bridge and came to the end of Ishikawajima Park and Sumida River Terrace.

Isn't there an unfamiliar military group?

Mr. Kawau? ？ ？

Usually, Kawau makes colonies on the tree, but always acts alone.

I doubt my eyes at this sight.

1 bird, 2 birds, 7 birds, 10 birds, 15 birds, 17, 18, 18,

Are you just swimming? No, no, they seem to be catching food in groups.

When the head begins to dive, it dives one after another.

The dive speed is as if men's rhythmic gymnastics are doing consecutive back tens.

I am surprised at the strength and elegance.

You've been catching fish for the fourth time since then.

In the 1970s, the water quality of the river deteriorated to 3,000 birds due to a decrease in the number of fish.

At that time, there were only three breeding grounds nationwide, including Ueno Shinobazunoike.

Now it is up to 150,000 birds.

This powerful swimming would have led to the resilience of the threat.

Mr. Kawau, who started diving here, how many seconds do you think he has been diving?

About 30 seconds!

Once, try to stop the competition, it's hard for us to win.

Diving distances are quite good, and they appear in unexpected places.

Why don't you take a walk with your child on the Sumida River Terrace during summer vacation?

You can see the dive Kawau near you.

 

 

While taking a walk at Tsukuda Park and Ishikawajima Park during the rainy season, I met swallows and sparrows who were busy raising children.

　

Is there a swallow's nest in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, a big city? I've been worried about it since around May.

I couldn't find it.

What a wonder, there are four swallows on the electric wire near Tsukuda Park!

Swallows do not return to the nest when nesting, but stop on nearby electric wires and conduct flight training and feeding training.

I'm going to travel to Taiwan and Australia in September and October.

Did you rent a nest under the eaves of a house somewhere near Tsukuda Park?

The probability of nesting from an egg is 50%, and 12% can grow until it crosses.

I'm still waiting with my big mouth open to feed my parent swallows, but the day when I dance high in the sky is coming soon.

　

Recently, on the Sumida River Terrace of Ishikawajima Park, brown hats still see many sparrows with pale colors.

If you look at the grassy squeaking with Chungchun, you know,

It's also cute to walk on the tonton with the parent sparrow.

The probability of nesting in this sparrow is 50%.

Parenting of life-saving birds is unfolding in front of us.

I want to watch gently while protecting the nature that nurtures them.

　

 

 

The other day, I visited Chikusen, a long-established Edo Komon store in Nihonbashikobunacho, at a course of a long-established tour of Chuo Kumin College.

I've explained it

This is Fumio Ogawa, the fifth generation head of the company.

Zhusen was founded in 1842 (Tenpo 13) when Kabuki Edo Sanza moved to Asakusa Saruwaka-cho. For 174 years, it has been spelled "model dyeing", which is hand-dyed every time with hand-carved patterns.

　

The dyeing was also featured in Tokyo's specialty in 1901, and was famous from yukata to Edo Komon.

After the war, it was relocated to Nihonbashi in response to voices from famous department stores and luxury kimono stores.

Chikusen's commitment is based on the belief of "Edo", inheriting the technology and color from the first generation, and conveying the taste of Edo today.

"But there is a pattern. No matter what happens, try to protect the pattern first."

It is said that he escaped the difficulties of the Great Kanto Earthquake and the Great Tokyo Air Raid.

I showed you a two-way yukata.

Swallow and gull

The heart pattern that the people of Edo enjoyed them abundantly in their daily lives while loving nature is revived vividly.

A boldly expressed bird design that the Edo people liked.

I'm going to fly around the sky of the 21st century.

As the number of times we introduce wild birds that we meet in Chuo-ku on our correspondent blog from April increases, we will continue to introduce them.

I began to think that wild birds could not change beyond space and time from Edo.

How do you feel about it?

Among the types inherited from generation to generation, other wild birds are "crane, sparrow, stag, hawk".

We also want to have time to love the nature of Heisei.

According to Mr. Ogawa's assumption, the ogu's cloth suits those in their 40s and the swallow's cloth suits those in their 60s.

　

2-3, Nihonbashi Kobunacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan Yukata, Komonjiku

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