The weather was awful, I didn’t get any nice photos and acid reflux burned my throat quite badly…
The spoonbills were still around but way off…
A disappointing night away…
Category: Yakumo
Last of the spooners
Don’t think I will be back that way for a while when no doubt they’ll have departed…
Another local rarity…
Terrible light and crappy pics but this was only my second ever Common Shelduck here in Japan…
I saw tons of these when I was growing up in NW England though.
More spooners
One of them had an almost all-yellow bill..the other didn’t. Maybe a first-winter and second-winter bird? They both had darkish wingtips so were not adults at least.
Not rare
Some of the standard summer birds at Yakumo…
Some late May rarities…
There were a couple of immature Eurasian Spoonbills at Yakumo. This is a scarce visitor but is probably annual; I’ve now seen them 7 or 8 times round here.
Short local May trip 2024 #1
We had a short 2 night/3 day camping trip and checked out the Oshamambe area…
The weather was awful on the way up; very dark and raining. There were a few common waders around…
Other stuff around included Common Greenshank, various duck species including a drake Garganey at Yakumo, Wryneck, Great Egret etc.
Golden Week 2024 #14
Near Yakumo there were lots of birds in the fields, A full summer plumage male Brambling was a nice find but when we turned around the car to try and get a good photo it had moved. Luckily there were lots of Rustic bunting including this summer plumage male…
Golden Week 2024 #10
Yakumo yesterday was a bit quiet. Here are a few random BIFs.
Lots of scoters offshore, lots of displaying Great Crested Grebes there too but not many waders; only a lone Wood Sandpiper, a lone Common Snipe and the 2 breeding small plovers including this one.
And a few migrating duck including Garganey and Shoveler…
A quiet week in mid to late April
A very quiet week…a few common birds only around town; just 1 Common Crossbill, Japanese Bush Warbler, Masked Bunting, Asian House Martin, Bull-headed Shrike and a few Coal Tits.
In Yakumo today there were a few waders; Kentish Plover, Common Snipe, Pacific Golden Plover and this lone Red-necked Stint being the most noteworthy.
Also around were the Greater White-fronted Geese flock, various common ducks, lots of Stonechat and my first Chestnut-cheeked Starling of the year.
Spring for sure
Lots of osprey around yesterday and also the first Stonechats of the year, the first singing Japanese Bush Warblers, the first Little Ringed Plover…
There was a flock of 100 or so Greater White-fronted Geese at Yakumo, Gadwall, Shoveler and some sunset swans…
More scoters
Very photogenic at this time of year.
