These pink cherry trees are called kawazu-zakura (kah-wah-zoo zah-ku-rah). They are very popular in Izu, but not so much in the rest of the country — not as much as the white (someiyoshino) ones anyways. I happen to prefer these over the white variety.
The bird is called a mejiro, or Japanese White-Eye. Nice looking, isn’t he?
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Hi, I cannot guess how you could take this pic of Mejiro so clearly zoomed in. The bird would fly away so quickly if it notices someone tries to get closed to it.
Very very quickly. They seem to move around just as fast as hummingbirds. I took close to a hundred shots and this was one of the few that wasn’t blurry. Lucky ^^
I did see the Flickr pic first, but as I see it again, I just have to say again. Stunning.
(have you tweaked the theme of this blog?) .-= kyushudan
Thanks!
I don’t know if this blog has a theme, other than that of Japan. I’m trying to post more photos since I haven’t had much time to write lately.
Hi, yeah, I’ve been a bit busy myself.
Actually, I was refering to the appearance of your site, the colours, buttons etc… Perhaps I’m just imagining it. .-= kyushudan
In that case, yeah, well kind of. I’ve tweaked the layout in various places and changed some of the code. I’m not really happy with the design but I’m only changing it bit by bit for now.