31 July 2017

A bit of needle


A heavy crop of an Osprey carrying a needlefish this afternoon. An odd looking fish............must be tricky to swallow whole I'd imagine.

Not much else around. Grey Wagtails have appeared on the river near my flat. Nothing in Kamiiso except a few moulting Goosander. The heatwave is mercifully over and now it's normal summer weather. Pretty hot and humid as opposed to very hot and extremely humid.

22 July 2017

21 July 2017

More Ospreys on a rock


Some more Osprey shots from a few days ago.

The female Osprey eventually started feeding its chick..............


20 July 2017

18 July 2017

Some Ospreys on a rock.................


We returned to the location of The Osprey nest to see if the young had left the nest.................


17 July 2017

North Hokkaido Summer 2017 #12


Yet more Rubythroats from the end of June..............I took too many pictures of them.


13 July 2017

11 July 2017

10 July 2017

8 July 2017

North Hokkaido Summer 2017 #6


Some more shots of the very photogenic Rubythroats from the end of June................


6 July 2017

Brown Hawk Owl


On the way back from north Hokkaido we stopped off near Tomakomai..............


3 July 2017

North Hokkaido Summer 2017 #2


The campsite where we usually stay in north Hokkaido has its own population of Siberian Rubythroats...................


2 July 2017

North Hokkaido Summer 2017 #1




We spent a few days up on the Ohotsuku coast in north Hokkaido last week..........


Whiskered Tern


We just got back from a weeklong camping trip to north Hokkaido.

The above Whiskered Tern was right at the end of the trip near Hakodate. An uncommon passage visitor in this part of the world. Not a great photo but this is only the second one I've seen in Japan. As I've said before, terns are scarce in Hokkaido so it's always nice to see them.

I saw my first ever Whiskered Tern on Lake Tinaroo in FNQ about 23 years ago, I think this is only my 3rd one ever.

I have tons of photos to sort through, a daunting task.
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