What the **** are you looking at?

Siberian Stonechat giving me the eye. RAW file converted in-camera and uploaded via my smartphone. I am away for a few days in the middle of Hokkaido...

Narcissus in the mist............

More of the same..........

A stint in the ricefields

The quietest

A Black Headed Gull, part of a flock at Kamiiso a couple of days ago. This is only a winter/passage visitor to Japan so we don't get to see them in their summer finery much...................

An extremely quiet spring migration season is drawing to an end. I wish I had something more interesting to post than a Black Headed Gull.

Still, their harsh calls take me back to the Ribble Marshes and Leighton Moss in summer. Sadly I haven't been to the UK in late spring/early summer this century.

Some common waders.............

A surprise in the fog...............

A Hooded Crane near Oshamanbe this afternoon...............and I even took a short video of it.

Tattlers

I spent a brief hour or so in Kamiiso this afternoon.....................

End of Golden Week

A Varied Tit this morning.............

Duck in a tree

I was in a park in the east of town this morning.................

Still waiting......................

A Little Ringed Plover at Asabu this afternoon...................