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Nature update (6)
Apr. 14th, 2021 12:57 pmA new sparrow family has moved into AirBnB. We can hear cheeping, and so can the Beastie Boys.
The magpie-robins and the koels are in full voice, all day every day (and in the case of the koels, at randomw points at night, too), except when they break for lunch and the cicadas take over. The Greater Coucal has been making itself heard too.
One of the things I really noticed about temperate climate environments is how silent they are, in comparison to the tropics. I remember a visit to the Fens, where I couldn't work out what was bothering me, until we heard a cuckoo, and I realised that it was the lack of noise beyond a bit of wind.
Lap-cat was a copy-cat and jumped up to the top of the kitchen cabinets where the other two (bigger, with more jumping range) occasionally hang out, and then felt stuck; I don't know why, he's done it before, and made it down safely; he just didn't feel like it today. Some howling for assistance later, I climbed up onto the counter (much more easily than it would have been, 18 kg ago), he came over to have his ears scratched and the base of his tail stroked, and then I lifted him down to the counter.
There's been a bit of early, pre-monsoon thunder, but no more major rain since the anomalous episode at the beginning of the month. Watching the Japanese weather satellites very carefully, now. Mango season has begun, yay!
The magpie-robins and the koels are in full voice, all day every day (and in the case of the koels, at randomw points at night, too), except when they break for lunch and the cicadas take over. The Greater Coucal has been making itself heard too.
One of the things I really noticed about temperate climate environments is how silent they are, in comparison to the tropics. I remember a visit to the Fens, where I couldn't work out what was bothering me, until we heard a cuckoo, and I realised that it was the lack of noise beyond a bit of wind.
Lap-cat was a copy-cat and jumped up to the top of the kitchen cabinets where the other two (bigger, with more jumping range) occasionally hang out, and then felt stuck; I don't know why, he's done it before, and made it down safely; he just didn't feel like it today. Some howling for assistance later, I climbed up onto the counter (much more easily than it would have been, 18 kg ago), he came over to have his ears scratched and the base of his tail stroked, and then I lifted him down to the counter.
There's been a bit of early, pre-monsoon thunder, but no more major rain since the anomalous episode at the beginning of the month. Watching the Japanese weather satellites very carefully, now. Mango season has begun, yay!
