
Not many summer visitors around but there were quite a few of these…


We were in the Mukawa/Shikotsuko area for a few days this week.
Mukawa was not great for birds. All the winter stuff had gone and most of the interesting summer stuff hadn’t arrived yet. And no passage waders there either.
The well-known birdbath at Shikotsuko provided some photo opps at least.
Only 5 species visited the forest pool but some of them were interesting…like the above Grey Bunting.
And this juvenile Japanese Robin.
As you can see lots of noise reduction in these images.
In addition to the dark it was raining and very very humid. And there were loads of mosquitoes too.