Some April waders.........

Only a few passage waders around, so here is a summer visitor and a winter visitor from Sunday.............


Little Ringed Plovers are summer visitors and common breeders in Hokkaido. A pair were feeding very close to our car................

This was a small wasteground from some seafood processing and there were lots of insects and other disgysting stuff for them to feed on.

There were several other species feeding on the insect buffet, I'll post more on those later but you can see them in the background here.

The wintering flock of Dunlin futher up the coast is now in summer colours..............they will be leaving for Siberia very soon.

Greenshank and Wood Sandpiper were also around as well as my first Lathams Snipe of the summer.