A quiet Sunday afternoon in Onuma: Whooper Swans, White-tailed Eagle, Bean Geese, Black Woodpecker and Common Redpoll were the most noteworthy birds.
Category: Onuma
Almost home
A drake Smew in nice light at Onuma…
A Smew
Wildfowl was thin on the ground and in the water in Onuma today. A few Whooper Swans honking away in the distance and a few bored looking Mallards. There was at least this drake Smew…
A grey Monday in Onuma
A Black Kite in Onuma this afternoon. It was a bit quiet; Black Woodpecker and White-tailed Eagle were around but the only thing posing for the camera was this raggedy raptor that I generally ignore…
A grey old Monday
There were some Harlequin Ducks at Sawara but not much else…
Onuma was a bit better although no decent photos sadly. there were at least 3 White-tailed Eagles, a pair of Black Woodpecker, Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, Bean Geese and Smew…
Some more Little ‘uns
In the fading light…
Little Grebes
The Little Grebes at Onuma were very active as they establish territories and start nestbuilding…
Not as shy as usual…
Way home in the rain
It was raining all the way home…we stopped at a few spots.
A noisy Smew
A crap pic of a distant Smew just before it got dark.
2X…?
A Smew at Onuma taken with the 2X T/C. It looks OK (ish) at low resolution.
But brutal at full-size.
One last eagle pic from the weekend (without T/C).
Fizzled Out
Yesterday was a grey misty Sunday. The spring migration season has just about fizzled out: a bit of a quiet one this year.
Some muted birds on a somewhat muted day.
Other stuff around included Cattle Egret, Green Sandpiper, lots of Grey-tailed Tattlers, a small flock of Falcated Duck, Eastern Marsh Harrier and newly arrived Black-browed Reed Warblers.
Black Woodpecker
A female Black Woodpecker at Onuma yesterday……………….
Not the easiest bird to photograph as it often was too close and almost always hiding behind twigs.