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

20 September 2016

12 September 2016

11 September 2016

'Winter' visitor


It's a crap picture, a scruffy gull on a garbage strewn beach.............but it's the first 'winter' visitor to arrive in 2016/17. An adult Glaucous Winged Gull.

A beautiful clear late summer day day but not much around birdwise. Red-necked Stints, Grey-tailed Tattlers, Japanese Green Pigeons, that's about it and nothing posing for the camera.

6 September 2016

5 September 2016

2016 wader season continues............




The weather was dull the last couple of days but at least there were waders on some of the beaches.................

3 September 2016

Local specialities


Hakodate is famous for seafood and in particular crab...................the Black Tailed Gull above fits in nicely then.

Not much else around, here's some Red Necked Stint, part of a small flock at Kamiiso this morning.


2 September 2016

Back through the typhoon #2


The typhoon earlier this week grounded lots of Whimbrel. Hundreds and hundreds of them...............


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