29 April 2018

Still hanging on in there..........


The Saunders Gull was still around on Sunday...............


On this day (April 29th)................


April 29th 2015.

Not a great picture but the only Collared Scops Owl I've ever seen, 3 years ago today in a park in Hakodate.

28 April 2018

A Golden Week Visitor


Golden Week, the spring holiday in late April/early May in Japan, often brings rarities or semi-rarities...........


25 April 2018

On this day (April 25th).....................


April 25th 2014.

A Pacific Golden Plover on one of the local beaches 4 years ago today. This is a regular visitor to south Hokkaido but they are usually unapproachable in the middle of the ricefields. Not this one though..............

24 April 2018

A spring cliche


Japanese White-eyes in the cherry blossoms at Matsumae yesterday...............


22 April 2018

A late one


It's well into spring but there was 1 White-tailed Eagle still at Yakumo this afternoon................

No snow anywhere, Skylarks singing and a colony of Grey Herons and Great Cormorants in the trees it was perching in a few weeks ago: it must be wondering what the hell is going on out there.

16 April 2018

Spring 2018 continues..........


We planned to head to the west coast today but the mountain road we usually use was blocked by a landslide..............


12 April 2018

11 April 2018

Some Crossbills..................


There was a small flock of Crossbills in one of the local parks yesterday morning..............


8 April 2018

A summer visitor............


Despite a bitterly cold westerly and a light dusting of snow last night it was definitely spring. The above Little-ringed Plover was newly arrived at Yakumo. Shame about the background............

2 April 2018

Some early April birds.........


I concentrated on the Nutcrackers yesterday but there were some other birds around...............


1 April 2018

Some Nutcrackers


We saw 4 Spotted Nutcrackers today......................


On this day (April 1st)............................


April 1st 2014.

Some Japanese Waxwings in Hakodate 4 years ago today. Not a red berry in sight either.

Early 2014 was a bumper season for both waxwing species that year.......................
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