A night away

We went camping a few days ago.................


Not many good photos at first due to the nasty weather. Here's a Kingfisher near Yakumo.

We found a 4th Laysan Albatross corpse on the beach, bit of a depressing sight.

Here's another seabird from the same locale, with the murrelet nearby a couple of days earlier  and the aforementioned albatross the last week has had a pelagic feel.

A big crop of a very tired Sooty Shearwater..........

Summer is coming to an end and the only species still singing is Grays Grasshopper Warbler. The other summer visitors are still around, just hiding in the grass like this scruffy looking Black-browed Reed Warbler.

It was unsurprisingly a mix of get skies and rain................but on the way back in the late afternoon the rain stopped for a bit and the sun came out.

I could get a few Red-necked Stint photos. This species was everywhere earlier in the week..........

In various locales there were quite a few other waders scattered around. Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed, Kentish and Mongolian Plovers, Whimbrel, Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper and these 2 species...............

Terrible photos but a Grey Plover in the surf and some Great Knot in flight.

Other stuff around included Great, Little and Intermediate Egrets, Osprey, Japanese Green Pigeon, Great-crested Grebe, Glaucous and Glaucous-winged Gulls and the usual common stuff.