In addition to the stints there were a few Dunlin and loads of Grey-tailed Tattler..
Short local May trip 2024 #8
Tag: Grey-tailed Tattler
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.
Some Saturday morning waders
A few waders around; the above tattler on the coast and Wood Sandpiper, Pacific Golden Plover and Black-winged Stilt in the only irrigated part of the ricefields. Shame they were too far off…
Common spring shorebirds
There were a couple of Turnstones mixed in with all the Grey-tailed Tattlers and Red-necked Stints. The former were very common up and down the coast.
Not really a shorebird but kind of…
A grey Thursday morning
Grey skies and grey birds this morning…
Golden Week 2022 #23
This Black-winged Stilt was west of town yesterday. Not a great angle (I was looking down from a riverbank) but this species is always worth a second look in Hokkaido.
This Grey-tailed Tattler was feeding in the same area…
Back near Hakodate
Lots of Stints near Hakodate too…………
And the other common passage wader……………
Tattlers
Not so many species but a lot of waders passing through with most of them being Grey-tailed Tattlers: the default medium-sized shorebird of the region.
A Wader in the Wind
Still quiet birdwise and today was very windy………
Nothing interesting blown in but there was a lone Grey-tailed Tattler to the west of town. This is is the commonest spring wader in south Hokkaido.
Still slow
Spring migration is still very slow. The calm sunny weather over the last couple of weeks might have meant most of the migrants have passed straight through. Today near my apartment there was a lone Asian Brown Flycatcher and yesterday in the west of town there were 2 Grey-tailed Tattler, 1 Brent Goose, I Goosander, 1 Wigeon and 1 Vega Gull.
I’ve also done something to my leg/back that is making walking difficult. It’s been present on and off for several weeks now. Probably sciatica and hopefully time will heal it…………..
Tattlers
There were loads of Grey-tailed Tattlers around this Sunday. This is the default medium sized passage wader in Japan………
Theye were everywhere today. I checked them all for Wandering Tattlers (a scarce bird here and a would be lifer) but nothing doing there…….