Both these Bunting species are summer visitors to Hokkaido. They occur in many habitats but both can often be found together on local capes and headlands.
These were on a cape on the west coast today. Other stuff around included Osprey, Peregrine, lots of Rhinoceros Auklet offshore, Blue Rock Thrush, Oriental Reed Warbler and 3 species of Cuckoo calling including several Lesser Cuckoo.
Both very handsome birds !
The Meadow Bunting especially. Yet it is so common in Japan that photographers pretty much ignore it.
A bit like Northern Lapwing in the UK – they really are handsome in summer, but only a tourist like me pays any attention to them !
Sadly they seem to have declined a lot since I lived there………….