This is the goose species easy to see in town…
Author: Stuart Price
A tricky one
I can never seem to get good photos of this species…there were 2 pairs of them displaying on the river.
I decided to walk on to the cape to try and photograph something other than crossbills…
A local tick
I took a few crossbill shots and moved quickly on…
They come in a lot of hues.
In among the White-fronts up above there were a few Cackling Geese. Crappy record shot but a Hakodate tick! 4 of them in this heavy crop; the ones with the white cheeks.
Another influx?
Unbelievable to say but there were a lot of crossbills at different spots on my long walk…another influx? Surely not.
In the skies large flocks of geese were heading north. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
Start of a long walk
A long Sunday walk started with a surprise find in the small park near my apartment. A Treecreeper! Not a bird I often photograph and quite scarce in town.
Only 2 crossbills there this time…
Let it be
After a few minutes I let it be; it looked perfectly content.
Up the road
A couple of hundred metres up the road there is another park with a tame Dusky Thrush…
Xbill Camo
They can be surprisingly difficult to spot among the fallen cones, needles and twigs…
Oblivious
It was completely oblivious with me crouched down a few feet away…
A lone one
Just one crossbill near my place yesterday and it was absurdly tame…
Ungrounded
They weren’t always on the ground…
So close
Framefillers.