Ring-necked Pheasant – Hakodate Birding

Midsummer Road Trip 2023 #8

Another morning in the Mukawa area…and a very close Latham’s Snipe.

I was surprised how common Chestnut-eared Buntings were.

And this is a common species up there too.

We looked around the rice fields a couple of days hoping to see a few waders and saw precisely zero…

The migration season has fizzled out. Not a vintage one this year…

We checked the rice fields outside town for waders but nothing doing. Just the above Pheasant (which is fairly scarce at least).

No waders or anything else of real interest on the coast although there were a few Ospreys fishing offshore.