Article written by: Ms Sachiko Takamura of Japan

   
 
Sachiko Takamura writes for a Japanese bird magazine, a bit like the cage & aviary magazine over here. She saw my Website and was very impressed with it, and asked if she could write a column about it, of course I agreed to this and here is a photo of the magazine and an English translation in her own broken English.
 
 
 
All Birds Magazine
Here is a photo of the front cover and the artical about this website
 
 
     
 
 
 
English Translation from Sachiko Takamura


SALEM'S JAVA FINCH PAGES
(http://www.javafinch.co.uk/) site of java sparrows by Mr.Rob Salem of
British


Java sparrows and I who live still memorize a shock at having visited this site for the first time. I thought till then that hand-fed java sparrow was found only to Japan and Far East Asia area. It is site of hand-fed java sparrows by British.
Information of this site is substantial fantastically. Useful information on the basis of experience of bird keeper overflows. To its being technical from a basic thing. We have thought whether we can finish understanding it because it is described with being information very in large quantities entirely English. However, We read it by the information that thought about a viewpoint of bird keeper without getting tired because it is occupied and can push it forward. I need time in its own way to inspect even it entirely because it is huge site. However, we are felt consideration of Mr.Rob Salem which is a manager because he spreads wonderful BGM in a menu page. In addition, it is easy to understand very much because an image is used abundantly everywhere. He use a big image to be easy to look at pawn of each image in detail smartly. Time has hanged with a download a little, but stress does not feel reading, it once if we seem to do reading from cash data and will set a browser. In addition, there is not a problem because transmission rate improves recently. We get possible to download some contents in Word documents form of Microsoft company. I can seem to refer to only pure information when I like it even if we are not connected to Internet expressly, and he will do it. It is really the site that it thinks from a situation of bird keepers, and is made.
Most of site of a pet to grind including a bird introduce bait. It is introduced in this site. Because uses a good image of quality abundantly very much as having mentioned above,we can easily understand them even if we are English weak persons. I happen to hear that We do not understand it in photographs of the book which judgment of each kind of seeds is hard to come down to. We do not understand it in images such as an image or the book which are surely small in incompleteness to those small places. I want you to look in such a person once because an image used in this site is very clear. I think so that a thing of this site is the most plain in an image of feed with what I watched until now.
As for what is interesting in addition to seeds, there is "hakobe" which is a favorite of java sparrows to Britain, and the image is carried. I look different from Japanese it a little, but it is surely "hakobe." I have had a sense of closeness toward him with java sparrows and "hakobe" unintentionally.

#"hakobe" is chickweed. It is popular in japan too.

It seems to be easy to compare a bill or an eye ring of java sparrows becoming it deciding it of judgment in contents of male and female distinction and magnifies only the part and explains it. Person breeding java sparrrow for the first time can easily understand . In addition, the condition that his java sparrows quarrels is introduced an animation, and an image of wild java sparrows is carried. We thoroughly can enjoy "java sparrow."
There is that a bird as a companion animal and a living person make nursing environment of an illness bird smartly. It is terrible work. A making method of a nursing cage for an illness bird is introduced here. It is introduced very in detail. May not even a person without having done Sunday carpentry usually easily make it? In addition, ways of heating are explained politely, and it is studied. It is explained breeding box, aviary equally. I was very much useful for me who thought about making of breeding box of a European and American expression. I think that I can easily make it alone if I refer to this site.

In addition, there is a list of a harmful plant for a bird. This list is very much substantial. I think whether it do not cover most harmful plants. There is not that we do not understand Japan name when we translate it into Japanese because even various names are listed in addition to fame very much. We get possible to download this list as Word documents form of Microsoft company, too. Though this will establish it at hand, it is convenient. It is his consideration that there is hard to be for bird keepers.
Mr.Rob Salem is famous as bird keeper of hand-fed java sparrow. I understand it if I have you look at site, but, as for the custom of the java sparrows, "a hand being fatty revel" is much than hand-fed java sparrows of the Japanese majority more splendid. We can look at an image of java sparrows on a hand in the outdoors in site. I have worried unintentionally whether a bird has not escaped, but it seems to be too much care. It is to understand it if it is hand-fed birds and a living person, but it is difficult every day to maintain "a hand being fatty revel" in this state that it does not take them and communication. We must spend considerable time on a bird every day in order to maintain "a hand being fatty revel" so long as is environment to be small like ill-treatment and does not keep it. It is really for it not to be possible if there is not it by a-lover.
He knew that hand-fed java sparrows was popularity in Japan. I tried to ask him about it. He expressed hand-fed birds with "an excellent custom." I heard this, and I became the feeling that I wanted to invite him unintentionally to Japan.
He has the impression that the we Japanese who does a construction in an overhanging style of hand-fed birds so that it is natural has forgot properly. It would be terrible to do it by the state that there was not environment to grind Japanese "hand-fed." We can make training of hand-fed natural. Perhaps his state would be the same as the times when Japan hardly had information of "hand-fed." Will not his effort that made "hand-fed" of such situation deserve praise?
In late years it is "hand-fed" that it is establishing the position in Japan, but, judging from the whole, it is apt to be made light still more. I look at him and intend that hand-fed birds is not readily the thing which I threw away. It is site wanting a person in "hand-fed" without interest to watch it. His site is very famous as site of java sparrows. Perhaps if it is it keeps java sparrows, and it having been searched foreign site with Internet, may not there be the thing that the once visited it? His site is always updated. I think that the frequency is considerably high one. It will be very site with speed. We are not good about the speed that we are careless once that we have visited it. I wish that all people access and enjoy it.

Timor Dusky Sparrow
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ARIGATOUGOZAIMAS SACHIKO TAKAMURA!!
     


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