31 December 2016

27 December 2016

25 December 2016

Christmas 2016


A Peregrine to the west of town this afternoon...............

A nice day for christmas, lots of snow in Onuma and clear blue skies. Not much of interest about: a few White-tailed Eagles here and there plus the usual ducks and suchlike on the sea.

Season's greetings to all those who read my blog. Well except for that person who regularly spams the comments with links to watch live sports. I hope that person's turkey gets burned, their wife leaves them and then they get arrested for drink driving.

14 December 2016

A scruffy duck


I had a spare hour or so to kill and the weather was mild and sunny so I took a short walk along the local river........................


4 December 2016

3 December 2016

2016 Best Of #5


A final selection of shots from 2016, all these are form autumn.................


21 November 2016

19 November 2016

2016 Best Of #4


Some photos from a trip we took to north/east Hokkaido in July..................


17 November 2016

2016 Best Of #3


Some more shots from earlier in the year, these ones are from summer..........


16 November 2016

Some more returnees




Another sure sign of winter is when grebes start appearing in the local fishing ports............


14 November 2016

9 November 2016

2016 Best Of #2


Some more shots from earlier in the year, all these were taken during spring migration from late April to mid May.................


7 November 2016

Still there.....................



The flock of Japanese Waxwing was in the same place as yesterday and in much better light...............


5 November 2016

4 November 2016

On this day (November 4th).......................


November 4th 2014.

An American Wigeon near Hakodate 2 years ago today. A scarce but regular visitor to Japan.

This was only the second one I've ever seen and the only one I've photographed. It was with a flock of Eurasian Wigeon.

This was one of the first batch of photos taken with my then spanking new 7D MK2, can't believe that was 2 years ago....................

2 November 2016

Beach Geese




Just outside town there was a group of 6 White-fronted Geese on the beach..............


30 October 2016

27 October 2016

On this day (October 27th)....................


October 27th 2013.

A Mugimaki Flycatcher in the autumnal glow at Onuma 3 years ago today.

This is a male I think, the species is a scarce but regular passage migrant in Japan, I see one every couple of years or so. This individual was the first bird I photographed with my then brand new 500 f4 lens.............a pretty nice subject.

25 October 2016

Some visible migration.............


Flocks of Brown-eared Bulbul heading south across the Tsugaru Straits at the weekend................


19 October 2016

Grey birds on a grey day



A very dark grey day on Monday...........with a grey goose and a Grey Heron...............


18 October 2016

Odd one out


October is a month for rarities and wanderers...................and generally lousy photos of them............


14 October 2016

Pika


This odd looking animal is a Northern Pika near Furano last week...............


29 September 2016

On this day (September 29th)..................


September 29th 2013.

Not a great picture by any stretch but I was quite excited by this scene 3 years ago today. A Long-tailed Skua mugging a Common Tern offshore at Yakumo. This is usually something that happens way offshore and I never witness, the Skua was a lifer too.

A couple of weeks later I saw large numbers of Pomarine Skua migrating close inshore at the same place. The last 2 years I checked at the same place/time but got nothing at all................

26 September 2016

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