Can Spring be far away?

 

Strange new year’s holiday. Big earthquake, tsunami, and airplanes enveloped in flames. I guess many Japanese have found it difficult to be relaxed during the holiday season …

Still, we’ve met Ashy minivet in Niiharu Citizen Forest 新治市民の森 yesterday. There has been rumor the bird is in Yokohama, though till about 10 years ago they were found only in Kyushu and Okinawa Islands. Global warming … It was just a fleeting moment. We were excited when its long tail flied over our head singing with long high-pitched voice. Meanwhile curious Varied tits came near to us recording monthly fixed-point observation. Their round, fluffy right brown feathers were cute.

Eastern spot-billed ducks are always here,
but it seems to me their kids are now grown up
and ready to have new families.

It is said this winter is warmer than usual. But every morning our neighborhood fields in Yokohama are covered with frost during new year’s days. I imagine the conditions in wrecked and snowed Ishikawa 石川県, Fukui 福井県, and Niigata 新潟県 Prefectures are brutal ... We’ve found a flower bud for noble orchid in Niiharu. It was still very small and hard. But it will flower in a few months’ time. Let’s keep crossing our fingers for better days.

A flower bud for noble orchid

It will flower like them in two months’ time.

Niiharu Citizen Forest in the morning of early January 2024.

If you find a problem in the greenery of north-half of Yokohama, please make a contact with

Office for the Park Greeneries in the North
北部公園緑地事務所
Yokohama Municipal Government Creative Environment Policy Bureau
横浜市環境創造
Phone: 045-311-2016

FAX: 045-316-8420