Title reads as watashi wa mitsuketa, which means i found out..
i could actually write mitsuketa... but i don't know, i m not that pro in japanese yet, am still learning...

so anyway, what did i find out? hehehe.. read on...


meet Frank and Helen, they are the swans in the lake haha.. the whole white kinghts lake, is dominated by them. they are very dominant... if other swans come, and even their own, babies, when they are old enough, they will get chased out.. man. the lake is so big.. can't they share?... guess not haha...

how did i know alll this? i was told by an old man.. i see him everyday by the lake, feeding them you see, so today i decided to talk to him, he's from some society called, swan life, and well he looks after the well being of the swans.. i was told that sadly, one of the swans, has died, and they are getting a new mate for the remaining swan.

the swans mostly die from poisoning, as this is a lake, the water is stagnent, and well the leaves that fall on the water, will sink to the bottom, cause they can't flow away... providing good nutrition, however, at the bottom there are also alot of bacteria which is poisonious to the swans.. so sadly....

anyway i was told that the water being shallow is one of the reasons why the swans get so easily poisoned.. apparently i can walk from one end to the other end of the lake and the water will be no higher than my chest.. yup that shallow, so the swans can easily reach the bottom and eat the poisonous stuff. so sad..

swans kind of like mate for life, but if their partner dies early, like maybe only after one year together, the surviving swan will look for a new partner, but if they have been together for about 5 or 6 seasons.. whatever that means.... then it's likely that they won't look for a new partner... so faithful heheh, and they don't migrate in teh winter... they are here the whole year...

by the way, frank and helen are the names of a chinese couple wor... == haha

so after the swans what did i learn? haha the next few pictures are courtesy of wikipedia.. cause i didn't take any pictures of the ones on my lake.. cause they either weren't there when i had a camera, or well just weren't there for my camera...

oh and i don't know what bird are next to the swans, cause they weren't out just now, when i was talking to the old man, so i couldnt ask him.. forgot to ask for his name.. oh well.. haha

ok, next thing i learnt..


moorhens... muahahha.. i learnt that they are non migratory birds as well, and when i looked up on wikipedia, it's cause their wings arent' meant to fly long distances, mostly omnivorous, and according to the old man they usually go onto the bank and eat grass haha..but they eat teh bread crumb that he gives too.. they are kind of small.. smaller then our chickens back home haha..

next up, a speicies of bird similar to the moorhen.. we have the....

meet the coot, haha, similar to the moorhen cause they are in the same family, see the white thing on its head? it's called a "shield" coots have white shields whereas moorhens are mostly reddish orange...

finally i learnt that something in the water prays on the poor baby ducklings and that in one year, in which the old man did a survey, out of 100 ducklings only 5 grew to adulthood.. so sad, but that's mother nature or this place would be swarming with ducks hahahs.. so i introduce the .....

meet the pike, a fish which can grow tilll 1.83 meter according to wikipedia, people used to fish to eat them, but they are generally pests in other places.. hmm i had to get this picture cause you don't expect me to go underwater to take a picture of it hahah..

so anwyay, all i had was like a 10 minute talk to the old man.. so i managed to only learn this much.. just thought it interesting to share, especially to those who are already in great britian or who are coming here hehe.. oh and to those who are in america or going there, you will see stuff like this there too :p maybe slightly different, cause like the coot here, we have the eurasion coot, the american coot is a tad different...

that's all for now.. it's dinner time.. :p

-Oracl3-