Monday, August 20, 2007

Flora and fauna -August-

August in Japan is very humid, or I would say "more than humid".
Typhoons come to Japan with much moisture from Pacific Ocean.
While typhoons are not born in the south of Japan, hot glaring sun covers
over this country.
Nevertheless, some of the insects are very active, enjoying this summer such
as Japanese beetles, stag beetles,cicadas.
How about birds ?
These days, you can hardly see them under trees with a plenty of leaves.
Only what you can notice is that they sing in a loud voice at the top of the
trees, enjoying the freedom from bird-watcher.
This is not good season for us, bird-watcher.
Plants:
Watermelons,peaches, Asian pears, etc are available in this season.
At the beginning of summer, there are lots of watermelons at stores.
But toward the end of the summer, you will find many Asian pears take the place of watermelons. Thus, you can see that the season is changing.