Friday 23 December 2011

Japanese white-eye

I spent a memorable couple of weeks in Japan in 2010, and my ambition was to see a Japanese white-eye, or Mejiro. I never did: plenty of black kites, but no Mejiro. It's a little song bird only about 4 inches long, it's often depicted in Japanese art, and used to be kept as a caged bird. Olive green back, a pale green underside, with a green forehead and yellow throat and the eponymous white eye-ring. This picture was taken by my English friend who's still living in Tokyo at the moment: as he opened his bedroom windows it was about a metre or two away on the tree outside and he managed to photograph it on his phone before it flew away moments later!

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