A cold day in the port. 2 Steller’s around but no decent photos, had to pass time photographing gulls and kites…
A cold Monday
Category: Gulls
A noisy morning
We slept in the car Sunday night so as to be in Oshamanbe early in the morning.
High high ISO here…
Helps if birds are white…
Black, white and grey
A dark, grey snowy Sunday with some common winter birds to match…
A grey Monday in January
A dark mild sleety day east of town today…
I was waiting for the Steller’s to leave its perch and do something interesting. It didn’t…
There were some other birds around. Lots of Goldeneye, the above Slav and various gulls including this Glaucous-winged.
000’s of them
Thousands of kittiwakes east of town today…
None of them had red legs.
Some more gulls
Esan was a bit quiet last weekend.
Both species of eagle were around but no photos.
The fishermen were tossing scraps into the water which the gulls appreciated…
Some rivermouth gulls
There were 8 or 9 gull species at the rivermouth in Yakumo the weekend before last…including lots of kittiwakes.
And the various winter gulls…
Back in town
Very autumnal in Hakodate. Some birds around too: 3 Great Egret on the river near my place as well as Brown Dipper, Grey Wagtail and Hawfinch. Lots of common ducks around as well.
And the winter gulls are here…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #11
On the nearby coast there were a few winter gulls, lots of Black-necked and Great Crested Grebes, a few common ducks, some Greenshank and 1 or 2 White-tailed Eagles.
A grey Sunday in late October
Winter birds are arriving…
Autumn here
The resident Slaty-backed and Black-tailed Gulls have been joined by some others. Lots of Vega Gulls last weekend as well as these 2.
There were also Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, various ducks, lots of Great Egret and this lone wader.
Upstream there were a few salmon (but not many: hope this just means they’re late) and the first eagle of the season. Crappy pic but always nice to see the first one.
Another walk on the river…
Some more low-key birding around town…
There were 7 species of duck including a small flock of Pintail and a couple of Shoveler…and the long-staying Whooper Swan too.
And 3 species of heron…
This Slaty-backed Gull had found a salmon-like fish to try and eat. I think its’ a salmon but not sure. I think there are 2 or 3 kinds in Hokkaido.
