SUNSET SNAP

My daily walk consists of a number of routes around the suburb of Hiroshima I live in, but my favourite one at the moment is the 8km stroll along the Senogawa river.

This place is just teaming with birds, despite being sandwiched between a train line and a busy highway. There are huge grey herons, loads of egrets, a few cormorants, a lot of ducks of varying persuasion, crows, buzzards, wagtails, sparrows and two very rare species - sparrowhawks (only seen them twice) and the glorious kingfisher, a couple of whom I sometimes glimpse going about their business. Today was one of those days.

Urban and suburban Japan can be very ugly, but I’m really fond of this particular area and all the wildlife that coexists with the concrete and cables.