A dreary overcast afternoon in Yakumo and hard work with the RF 600 f/11…
A pair of Garganey were present as were several Northern Shoveler, Great and Little Egret, Eurasian Curlew (presumably the same bird as 3 weeks ago) and about 200 White-fronts…
The curlew wasn’t the only wader around. There were also Black-winged Stilt, Little Ringed Plover and Northern Lapwing. Other stuff on Sunday at Yakumo included my first Barn Swallow of the year, my probable last local White-tailed eagle, lots of Whooper Swan, a lone White-front, lots of Common Gull and a few Glaucous too.
Not only ducks, grebes and divers…
It was still there on the way back…
A difficult bird to photograph!
I could sneak up quite close to it but it was very skittish.
This Osprey was in the same spot as the Crested Kingfishers…
I got the 2X teleconverter out of the bag. Not something I often use…
Most of the shots were of the male. This one is the female. Damn twigs…
And together…
Only my 2nd ever Eurasian Curlew in Japan…
Of course I’ve seen loads of them in the UK but in Hokkaido it seems pretty uncommon. Eastern Curlew is the ‘default’ one here.
A bird I see fairly often but never get to photograph.
Handheld at 700mm out of the car window on a dark rainy day.
There were some geese at Yakumo at the weekend…
Shame about the light.
It was raining all the way home…we stopped at a few spots.
