Day 28: 7月28日
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Read most of the Shrike chapter of まいにち鳥びより this evening (just left the final few pages that don’t have furigana because it’s too much to attempt tonight 
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I learnt from today’s chapter that there’s an old farming proverb that says when you hear the call of the shrike in autumn, 75 days later frost will arrive. This led me to search up the call of a bull-headed shrike, which in turn led me to videos of shrikes impaling small rodents and insects on thorns. The author, Tobita Hajime, somehow managed to showcase an incredibly brutal hunter in a much more family friendly kinda style than the reality haha
I’m enamoured with how he draws grasshoppers!