They weren’t as tame or as photogenic as further north or east……………..
More Rubys
Category: Mukawa
More car park birds
In addition to the Rubythroats there were many birds……………..
Middendorf’s, Lanceolated and Sakhalin Grasshopper Warblers, Eastern Marsh Harrier, Northern Hobby, White-tailed Eagle, Sand Martin, Northern Hobby, Latham’s Snipe, Wryneck, Long-tailed Rosefinch…………………and these 2 common species.
A morning next to a car park
We spent one night in the car near Tomakomai. The car park, next to a busy-ish road, was adjacent to some grassland. There were lots of birds around in the early morning including several Siberian Rubythroat.
The Tomakomai area must be right on the southern limit of this species range in Japan (they don’t breed near Hakodate).
This one was singing on an old electrical wire next to a railway line.
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Damn twigs in the way……………..
2021 Late Winter Trip #16
Some of the geese at Mukawa were hybrids………..
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More White-fronts from last week…………
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Until just under 2 years ago I had never seen Cackling Goose or Snow Goose in Japan.
Now I just can’t stop seeing them all over the place…………
2021 Late Winter Trip #13
There were a small group of White-tailed Eagles on the beach near the port in Mukawa………….
This one was in the port itself.
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There’s a reason gulls hang around fishing ports
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These shots were with the 500 f4 and 2X teleconverter on the R5: surprisingly useable………..
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There were also about 40 Snow Geese in the goose flocks…………..
But as I said before it was 99% Whitefronts………..
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There were a few Cackling Geese in among the Whitefronts………….
