The bare 500 f4 on the R5 was much sharper than with the 1.4X T/C for my wagtail shots…
2022 Summer Road Trip #13
Category: North Hokkaido
2022 Summer Road Trip #12
Siberian Rubythroats weren’t as conspicuous as usual on the north coast but this male posed nicely on some driftwood on the beach.
2022 Summer Road Trip #11
The only species posing nicely in the wildflower ‘park’ was this Stonechat.
2022 Summer Road Trip #10
The Yellow Wagtails were in the same spot the next day…
This must be their easternmost breeding spot in Japan?
2022 Summer Road Trip #9
Some more Rosefinches…
2022 Summer Road Trip #8
On some more natural perches…
2022 Summer Road Trip #7
Long-tailed Rosefinches were particularly common this summer on the north coast…
This is a female…
2022 Summer Road Trip #6
We found a family of Eastern Yellow Wagtails in exactly the same spot as 4 years ago…
Behaving in exactly the same way as Yellow Wagtails did when I used to see them in the UK.
2022 Summer Road Trip #5
At our campsite and the wild flower grassland spot Siberian Rubythroats seemed a lot less common than I remember…
Still a lot of Middendorff’s Grasshopper Warbler at least…
2022 Summer Road Trip #4
It was our first visit to the grasslands of North Hokkaido since 2019. We visited one of our favourite wild flower spots. It was a bit quiet to be honest. Don’t know if it was because we were a few days later than previous visits or some other reason…
All the usual species were present but not in such great numbers or posing for photos much. Except for this male Stonechat.
2022 Summer Road Trip #3
A couple of falcons from the first day. Not good photos but 2 species I don’t get to photograph much…
North Hokkaido 2019 #13
At Shibunotsunaiko there were several Siberian Rubythroat nests deep in the hamanasu bushes………….
Crows were watching and I saw a weasel running around too. Tough times to raise chicks…………..
