Notes:
woodpecker きつつき;
beak (鳥の)くちばし;
turkey シチメンチョウ;
fawn 子鹿;
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I went for a morning walk in a wooded park yesterday morning. I like to go birdwatching, and I was hoping to find birds that I could not see in Japan. The first birds I heard were woodpeckers. They live in Japan, too. I heard one using its beak to make a hole in a tree. This is the way it finds insects to eat. Then I saw true American birds: wild turkeys! There were two hens with about 15-20 chicks (babies) in a field. There was also a mother deer with a fawn (a baby deer) there. What a great day! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes
overfishing 乱獲、濫獲;
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Last night the hot weather made me think about eel-eating day. I checked and found out that it was on Tuesday this week. I missed it! I won’t be able to eat eel for another year! That’s a joke. I like eel a lot, but it’s expensive so I don’t eat it very often. These days, I don’t really feel like eating eel because there are fewer and fewer eels in the sea. If everyone keeps catching and eating them, there will be no more eels for our children and grandchildren. The same is true for many kinds of fish. I hope that the countries of the world can get together and stop overfishing. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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