Friday is a garbage collection day. Ayako went to her ceramic art class.

  On every Monday and Friday morning, I have to take out garbage to the garbage collection station. Today was Friday. On the garbage collection days, crows caw very noisely. But this morning, magpies were very noisy. About 10 years ago, I saw magpies for the first time here in Tomakomai. Before that, I had seen them when I traveled in New Zealand. It was said magpie's habitat in Japan was only the northern Kyushu. Now I think we can see a lot of them here in Hokkaido may be because of global warming.