A collection of collections

Animals

Mute Swan
Black kite
Grey heron
Great cormorant
Barn swallow
Eurasian tree sparrow
Large billed crow
?Great/?medium egret
Little egret
Japanese macaque
Oriental turtle dove
Barbour's blue-tailed skink (Plestiodon barbouri)
Chinese hwamei (introduced)
Green pheasant
Eurasian nuthatch
Varied tit
Sika deer
Frog sp.
Robust skink sp.
Red-billed leiothrix (introduced)
Tiger keelback/Yamakagashi (Rhabdophis tigrinus)
Eastern spot-billed duck 
White wagtail
Japanese woodpecker
Little grebe
Mallard
Common kingfisher 
Grey wagtail
Copper pheasant
Freshwater Turtle sp.
Warbling white-eye
Serow
Tanuki
?Japanese Grass Lizard (Takydromus tachydromoides)
Brown eared bul bul
White cheeked starling
Hummingbird hawk-moth




Man holes

Magome

Ochiai


Nakatsugawa

Hachioji

Akishima

Mt Takao

Sagamihara







Yamanakako

Oshino


Fujiyoshida



Fujikawaguchiko 

Fujinomiya



Fukushi

Ushizuma


Shizuoka












Kurata

Shimada




Haruno-cho


Futamata


Kakegawa






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