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…
Very quiet at Sawara this afternoon but there quite a few Red-necked Grebes at least..
Don’t think I’ll be back in that spot this winter…
When we got back to Hakodate I randomly snapped this from the car window…
A crazy winter for finches…
I wish they foraged in some nicer looking spots…
I wonder which mountain tops they go back to in spring?
The Japanese name is ‘Hagi-Mashiko’…so we call them ‘hags’ for short…
Hagi is a kind of purple flower BTW.
Amazing what food they can find in the filthy gutters of the port…
They don’t always perch on boxes…
I’ve been using bursts with the Electronic Shutter exclusively for a while now. A lot of similar shots, as you can see here…
Ahem.
I left it to have the grassland to itself…
Think this is a female.
