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raccoon!!!!

No!!!!

Wild boar ??? 
Oh, dangerous...

Haha -yeh, dangerous! No, not a wild boar. A smaller & less dangerous animal...

I think it was a squirrel!

Oh - good guess! But no, not a squirrel.

A rabbit? But it is not Easter time. Mum

No, not many rabbits in Japanese forests, mum, though they live on some islands (free from predators?).

Raccoon’sornament?????? 
Or fox?????? 
I don’t no!!! 
It’ｓ so difficult!!!!

Good morning. 
 
My homework... 
 
It's a fox. 
 
I got a hint from your photo. 
 
We'll, you eat a fox UDON:)

Nice guess, but no, it wasn`t a fox. 

Does `fox Udon` mean it contains fox meat? Sounds interesting... but I don`t think my udon contained fox meat.

The answer is: A bird! To be exact, a  Varied Tit (ヤマガラ Yamagara). There were 2 or 3 of them, & they flew in & out of the restaurant every 1 or 2 minutes to get seeds (たね) in a tin. 
Thanks to friend & wildlife photographer Mike Romano for the name of the bird, which I didn`t know. This is his website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcowboy/
Please look - his photos of Japanese birds are amazing.

The answer is A bird! 
On the top of Mt. Kinka in Gifu city,You can feed wild birds. They look like Yamagara. 
They come to get food in your hand! 
So cute!