elisooker's Identifications

Here is a live pupu harakeke lurking under plants in the shade.

Locally common - these specimens (dead) retrieved from where they had washed into pools of water within the numerous ephemeral stream courses lining the cliffs

Not captive. The island custodians put the frog in a container to show us

Japanese name: ホオジロ, hoojiro.
Male. Calling from the top of a small tree.

Japanese name: モズ, mozu.
Male.

Japanese name: カワラヒワ, 河原鶸, Kawarahiwa.
A couple: female and male.

strangely my first ever male, shame the photo is just a proofshot.

Japanese name: キジバト, 雉鳩, kijibato.

Japanese name: ハシブトガラス,嘴太烏, hashibuto-garasu.
A pair feeding on dandelion flowers on the levee.

Japanese name: ホオジロ, hoojiro.
Male.

Holy Sugi tree on the grounds of Katori Shrine 香取神宮.
A board indicates that It is said to be over 1000 years old and has a circumference of approximately 7.4 mt.

Nest with three eggs.

Few trees seen higher up the ridge above Hard Beech.