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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.
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Not really a shorebird but kind of…
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Well the start of a new era in Japan, literally.
It was agrey drizzly day and just outside Hakodate there was a flock of 16 Ruddy Turnstone.
Other stuff around included Great-crested Grebe, 10 or so Brent Geese, a few wildfowl and duck stragglers, 1 Grey-tailed Tattler and 2 Common Sandpiper.