Another big dump of snow last night................
Winter 2017/18 has been a lot colder and has seen a lot more snow than recent winters.............
Here's a Kingfisher against a snowy background at least.............
By the time I got the monopod/TC ready it had of course flown off.
The Waxwings are still around....hope they stick around until my next free morning/afternoon.
A bit quiet birdwise roday. At Onuma the Falcated Ducks appear to have left. No Baikal Teal either. Or Smew. Just Mallards, Spot-billed Ducks and Whooper Swans.....................
Actually this was the most interesting bird at Onuma today.
Just a Vega Gull I think. A bit odd in its choice of habitat though. And rather pale too.
Here's one on the coast later the same day.
A very variable species.
Coincidentally I met 3 young Japanese birders yesterday from Hokkaido University who are doing a research project on Vega Gulls involving rings and GPS transmitters.
Actually these days you probably need a PhD in Gull ID just to identify all the myriad of large white-headed gulls............
Hello Stuart!:) Pretty Kingfisher shots, and the swan in flight shots are amazing. But for the head and chest markings on the Vega Gull, it looks very like a Herring gull,...nice capture with the wings open.:)
ReplyDeleteHi, Vega Gull and Herring Gull were only quite recently split..............
DeleteGulls are a challenge to be sure.
ReplyDeleteA challenge I often fail to rise to....
DeleteLW-HGulls? Just ignore them, that's my position.
ReplyDeleteI may get a lifer if someone better at it than me can ID one of the vagrants ones that look very slightly different from the common ones..........
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