Some birds from town today…a grey, foggy,humid Sunday afternoon in mid June.
A grey day in midsummer
Category: Hakodate
Quiet in town
Pretty quiet now in town. The Chestnut-cheeked Starlings (male above, from this afternoon) are busy feeding their young but not much else about. In the past week or 2 I didn’t take my camera out when going for a walk. Black-crowned Night Heron and Peregrine were the most noteworthy birds.
A lot
A lot of Dusky Thrushes in town at the moment…
A quiet walk in the park
Some common species from the local park…
Back home
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.
Harsh
Very bright and sunny yesterday…not so good for white birds on ice/water then.
The light was too harsh for decent photos of this Great Egret in the local park.
It was catching tiddlers…
A long sunny walk
A very springlike day, I took a long walk down the river to the ocean. Still deathly quiet birdwise: a few Dusky Thrush, a surprise male Pheasant, an injured Whooper Swan, 5 species of duck including Goldeneye and Goosander.
And the male Daurian Redstart was in the same place as yesterday.
And the Great Egret was back on the river too.
On its territory
Every winter a Daurian Redstart sets up a territory alongside the river near my apartment. And on my way back from a chore this morning there he was….
A very slow March
A very very quiet time at the moment: for various reasons I haven’t been out much and even when I do there aren’t many birds around. 2022 has been a bit of a slow year across the board.
Here are a few common local birds from the last few days.
Not what I hoped for
Most winters we either have flocks of Waxwings or flocks of Crossbills. Or both. Or if not maybe Redpolls, Bullfinches…
Not so lucky this year. Only Dusky Thrushes…
A quiet Friday afternoon
I had a quick walk around the block this afternoon: not much around. A few Eastern Great and Varied Tits, 20 or so Dusky Thrush and this lone Pygmy.
A quiet week in town
A Brambling snacking on Dusky Thrush poop in town today…
There were loads of Dusky Thrush last week in Hakodate but most appear to have gone. Nothing interesting among them. And they ate all the berries so if any Waxwings do make it to my neighbourhood this winter there won’t be much food for them.
Not much else around: Sparrowhawk, Goshawk and Hawfinch being the most noteworthy.
It has stopped snowing at last…