I just can’t escape geese: this lone straggling White-front was in parkland atop a cape!
The Ospreys have returned…not great pics it has to be said.
And near my apartment all the snow has gone…
Other birds around on Monday in the Esan area were Glaucous-winged Gull, Harlequin Duck, lots of Brent Goose and a lone White-tailed Eagle.
I was surprised to see this lone Bean Goose in the same place I’d seen 3 Greater White-fronts last month…
A pretty quiet day, the local Steller’s flew around a bit but up high and it was not especially photogenic today.
Only female Harlequins in camera range again…
A quiet Sunday out east today, but it’s difficult to get too tired of the common winter species here…
No matter how crappy life has been the last couple of years I still have a fairly local Steller’s Sea Eagle…
The local Steller’s Sea Eagle has been very inactive this winter. At times I thought it had been nailed to its perch, or frozen to it.
But today it was flying around…
There were 2 Mountain Hawk-Eagles, 1 Steller’s Sea Eagle and several White-tailed Eagles around…
A very cold weekend with s***loads of snow.
The 3 eagle species were present east of town with the immature Mountain Hawk-Eagle being the most active.
One of the resident Peregrines out east today.
A quiet Monday: Eurasian Kestrel, Buff-bellied Pipit, Rustic Bunting were among the more interesting species but nothing especially noteworthy. No Waxwings or winter finches yet.
A few raptors were around.
I can’t get sharp BIFs pointing upwards at 700mm.
Several White-tailed Eagles were in the skies but I couldn’t find the local Steller’s anywhere.
Why do male Harlequins never come close like this female?
The geese were still there when we went home…
A young Mountain Hawk-Eagle from today…it even perched down quite low and chased off an adult Steller’s Sea Eagle.
They flew off and were chased (unsuccessfully) by a White-tailed Eagle but came back…
3 stragglers from the huge flocks of geese that visit Japan in winter. Almost all of them are in northern Honshu or further south now. But not these 3…
