This New Year’s Day, I did a small photo-shooting walk with my smart phone. I’m sure I have to train myself to take photos in focus. The tool is difficult to stabilize for a sharp picture … Is there any good way to stabilize the machine without compromising sufficient mobility? Anyway, here are products of my New Year’s Day practice, with my bandaged right wrist.
I think it is a winter bud for wild mulberry (Morus australis). The tree has (1) no prick, (2) alternate winter buds, (3) a tip of a twig has solo winter bud that is the same size of the other buds in the middle of a twig, (4) a bud covered by at least 3 scales, (5) non-hairy twig, (6) a bud in a shape of a water drop, or an oblong egg, and (7) a pale brown bud with a half-moon-shaped leaf-scar at corners of zig-zagging twigs. This is one of the easy ways to identify winter buds in Yokohama, suggested by Dr. Kitagawa of Tokyo Univ. I summarized her flow chart to classify species of winter buds in Kanagawa Prefecture in my post on 17 February 2017. Actually, I’m using her system a lot in winter forests of Yokohama.
Winter buds for Japanese walnuts (Junglans ailantifolia). These buds are always very talkative, don’t you think? This year, after super-typhoon Trami passed, their still green leaves turned brown overnight due to sea salts, and the trees shed their leaves in no time. Then, under still relatively warm weather during the middle of October they sprouted fresh green leaves. I wondered what they would do during dead winter. Sure enough, now the walnuts trees do not have leaves, but only buds. Is there any effect on the health of these trees by sprouting green-leaves just before winter? At least their winter buds look fine. Let us see how their fruits go coming September.
Sun bathing of Indian spot-billed ducks (Anas zonorhyncha). They are always in somewhere along Tsurumi River 鶴見川 of Yokohama, all year long. But during winter we can enjoy bird-watching of them more easily … why?
Tokai Univ. Junior, Ryoji Tatezawa for one of the Japanese New Year’s features: the 95th Tokyo-Hakone Collegiate “Ekiden” Road Relay 第95回箱根駅伝. Congratulations, the athletes of Tokai University of Kanagawa Prefecture, for the Championship this year!
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