May 5th- 9th, 2024 is Summer – RIKKA(Beginning of summer) -19th KOU “Frog start singing”.
In the lunisolar calendar, it is the first day of summer. It’s getting hot after all. The temperature was 30℃ on the 4th and 33℃ on the 5th (this year’s highest temperature).
The usual plant nursery center has finally opened, and I planted the vegetable seedlings I bought yesterday. It was very hot during the day, so I planted them in the evening, but I was still drenched in sweat.
The KOU (72 microseasons) is now in “Frog season.”
This frog is probably AMAGAERU (Japanese train frog). From around May, when rice fields are filled with water to plant rice seedlings and spawning areas are created, male frogs send love calls to female frogs in order to breed.
There is still no water in rice fields in the HOKUSHIN area. Because the water temperature is still a little low. We have to wait a little longer until hearing their voice coming from the rice fields.
I went to the swamp where I had found the egg of a frog (probably NIHON-AKAGAERU (Japanese brown egg)). I couldn’t find the frog, but voice of singing, singing, singing.
They lay eggs in early spring (I found them on March 3rd). So, it doesn’t seem like they sing for breeding, right?
Wild warblers, pheasants, and many other birds whose names I don’t know were also singing together.