現地時間2024年5月27日（月）、午前7時に起きた。午前7時40分に家を出て語学学校へ向かった。放課後は弓道の練習に向かった。
袴を着て練習した。バンクーバーで袴をつけるのは今日が初めてだ。弓道仲間の1人が今月、日本に滞在しており、その方が東京の店で袴などを買ってきてくれた。
練習に向かう道中、見たことのない鳥を目撃した。茶色い地味な鳥が、公園を歩き回っていた。
この鳥は、幼いホシムクドリだろう。光る黒い体や白い斑点が特徴的な成鳥とは、驚くほど違う見た目をしていた。
On Monday May 27th 2024, I got up at 7:00 a.m. PST. I left my house at 7:40 a.m. to go to my language school. I went to a gym for Kyudo practice after school.
Today is the first day for me to wear a Hakama, Japanese traditional cloth, during the Kyudo practice. One of the Kyudo club members had stayed in Japan, and bought tools and clothes for the club members including me.
On the way to the practice, I found birds that I had never seen. The brown birds with brown plain bodies walked at a park.
They were probably European Starlings. Adult ones with black shining bodied and white spots, but their features were quite different because they likely were young birds. I was surprised how huge the difference was.