A lifer to end the year.................

A heavily cropped and backlit photo but a lifer nevertheless................

End of year eagles.............

We managed a quick trip up to Yakumo.................

Quiet end to Christmas..........

Crappy weather and a wife under the weather meant little birding..................

A rainy day in the ports

It's been raining all day.................

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.

A night in Yakumo #2

A night in Yakumo #1

We spent Sunday night in Yakumo.......................

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........................

A quiet Monday

A very low-key Monday....................

3 eagles

A rather frustrating Sunday afternoon............................

A mild Monday

Still mild in south Hokkaido..........................

Another mild Sunday in Yakumo..................

The mild winter continues, I didn't even need a jacket in Yakumo as the temperature hovered around 12..........................

2016 Best Of #5

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