Last uploads from the trip…
2022 Summer Road Trip #22
Category: East Hokkaido
2022 Summer Road Trip #21
One of the commonest birds on the capes and grasslands in east/north Hokkaido…
2022 Summer Road Trip #20
Rubythroats still seemed reasonably common around Kiritappu.
And there were plenty of Reed Buntings too.
2022 Summer Road Trip #19
The last day of the rip was near Kiritappu and there were lots of Pacific Swifts in the foggy skies.
2022 Summer Road Trip #18
Crappy pics (due to my own poor technique, a bucking boat and fog) but I got some nice views of this very rare bird (in Japan).
There were also several Sea Otters: kind of like a cross between a Seal and a Rat.
2022 Summer Road Trip #17
There was a small flock of Spectacled Guillemots at Ochiishi…
2022 Summer Road Trip #16
We did the Ochiishi boat trip. It was pretty foggy but we saw plenty of birds. This Brunnich’s Guillemot posed nicely close to the boat.
The commonest alcids were Rhinoceros Auklets and Spectacled Guillemots and we also saw Ancient Murrelet, Northern Fulmar, Red-necked Pharalope and Sooty (or Short-tailed?) Shearwater.
I was hoping to get a shot of a Tufted Puffin. I’d seen one on this trip before but couldn’t get a photo. We didn’t see any this time but we did manage to see this Horned Puffin. Crappest of crappy pics but a lifer…
2022 Summer Road Trip #15
The fog lifted slightly…
2022 Summer Road Trip #14
We moved east to the Nemuro area. There were more Rubythroats here than on the north coast…
It was foggy and humid here.
East Hokkaido September Trip #13
I didn’t really get any good BIFs of the RLKs……………
In the car they were too close and it was difficult to track them with so little space to move plus when I got out it was too windy to hold the camera straight.
East Hokkaido September Trip #12
It was great to see a rare bird so close……………..and 9!
Of course with a 500 lens it was impossible to get all 9 together in one shot.
East Hokkaido September Trip #11
After Neil and Richard left we checked the port and were very surprised by what we found in one corner…………….
A flock of no less than NINE Red-legged Kittiwake…………………
