One of the resident Peregrines out east today.
A quiet Monday: Eurasian Kestrel, Buff-bellied Pipit, Rustic Bunting were among the more interesting species but nothing especially noteworthy. No Waxwings or winter finches yet.
A few raptors were around.
I can’t get sharp BIFs pointing upwards at 700mm.
Several White-tailed Eagles were in the skies but I couldn’t find the local Steller’s anywhere.
Why do male Harlequins never come close like this female?
A Smew at Onuma taken with the 2X T/C. It looks OK (ish) at low resolution.
But brutal at full-size.
One last eagle pic from the weekend (without T/C).
The geese were still there when we went home…
They flew off and were chased (unsuccessfully) by a White-tailed Eagle but came back…
3 stragglers from the huge flocks of geese that visit Japan in winter. Almost all of them are in northern Honshu or further south now. But not these 3…
Wow it was cold today…
Although east of town doesn’t have much snow.
Back in town there were blizzards.
Topaz Denoise doing its thing well here….
Very very dark yesterday afternoon but there were some tame Harlequin Ducks just outside the car window.
This is a female.
A quiet lazy Sunday but I stopped by one of the local ports and there were some Scaup diving and catching fish…
It was really dark today with gloomy skies and heavy rain…no snow yet this winter.
I took advantage of Black Friday to get half price DXO PureRaw and I could use it on these 2 high ISO pics (3200) from this afternoon.
I’ve been using Topaz DeNoise for the last year or so. DXO seems slightly better but only just.
It is supposed to work well with Lightroom but from my initial tinkerings it doesn’t really, maybe I’m missing something obvious. I had assumed I could just right-click an image in Lightroom and open it in PureRaw, process it and the new file (with all tags, keywords etc) would be in the same stack as the original. But nope.
I’ll grapple with it later.
Both species of scoter were offshore on Sunday.
The Stejneger’s Scoters came a bit closer than normal. A striking but odd-looking bird…
(Taiga?) Bean Geese were also common in Urahoro….
