Duck in a tree

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




Quite a nice selection of species but it was a little dark for photographs. Rustic and Black Faced Bunting, Hawfinch, Crossbill, Japanese Grosbeak, Brown and Japanese Thrush, Japanese White-eye, Japanese Grosbeak, Blue and White Flycatcher, Olive Backed Pipit,  Narcissus Flycatcher, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Red Flanked Bluetail, Nuthatch, 4 species of tit and 3 species of woodpecker.

The Grey Headed Woodpecker was a female today...............

I was hoping to see and photograph a Japanese Robin but nothing happening there so my next target was Mandarin Duck. These are very shy in Hokkaido. They were sat on a moss covered rock but flew off before I could take a picture.............

Strange to see them take refuge in the trees.............

Nothing of interest near home, very few migrants. Goryokaku park (where the cherry blossons are in full bloom on a 4 day national holiday) had lots of toursists but no birds. A singing Dusky Thrush in the park near my flat had me confused. They are abundant winter and passage visitors but I almost never hear them singing.....................