This is the goose species easy to see in town…
Category: Hakodate
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.
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.
More Friday xbills
I’ve really indulged myself with these this winter.
A few Dusky Thrush were around too…