Only a few swans, no geese and the ducks were in the middle of the now mostly unfrozen lake…
Not a vintage day for photos.
A quiet Monday afternoon in Onuma
Tag: Black-necked Grebe
Late ones
Still a few redpolls around…
And this horribly backlit Black-necked Grebe was starting to turn…
Some B/W Monday shots
It was a grey Monday. But the Ospreys are back; I’d seen several already the previous week before this one flew over low.
Sometimes the ports are full of Black-necked Grebes in summer plumage in March. Not yet this year. And there were only 2.
Nasty weather
Very wet/windy/blizzardy the last 2 or 3 days. LOADS of Common Gull on the coast…
Apart from the gulls it was pretty quiet.
I was checking out a harbour but there were a few crossbills in the pine trees nearby so I couldn’t resist.
Emptyish ports
The port west of town was pretty quiet. Some crossbills and redpolls in the trees/weeds but not many waterbirds; just a few common ducks and this lone Black-necked Grebe.
Spring 2023 underway
Fishing Ospreys at the rivermouths carrying fish inland to their nest, flocks of Black-headed Gulls in breeding plumage and grebes in summer colours on the sea before they head north…it’s spring.
A sunny Sunday with the RF 600 f/11
Some more shots from the Canon RF 600 f/11.
Struggling a bit with it: the slowish AF and high ISO are a pixel peeper’s nightmare. Small low resolution shots like this are not so bad.
BIFs are hard, at least they’re hard for me.
A soft but interesting enough shot.
A lot of noise reduction and sharpening going on here. Again, at such low resolution and when looked at on a phone they are passable.
Some more RF600 f/11 shots
It was a bright sunny afternoon….
The lens is taking a bit of getting used to, still not 100% comfortable with getting the right exposure sometimes. A lot of soft shots but a few hits.
And lo-rez pics like this are presentable.
Another freezing day
Another bitterly cold day with the same species as a couple of days ago…
A freezing start to 2022
A very cold New Years Day saw us east of town. All 3 species of eagle were present plus Goshawk, Sparrowhawk and Peregrine…
I waited a while for a Steller’s high up on the hillside to take flight…but it didn’t.
A few birds were in the water behind me…
A quiet week in late January
A couple of winter staple species from the last week: the grebe was in Esan and the egret in Hakodate.
Most of the usual species were in Esan the other day but no good photos were to be had and in Kamiiso today there were lots of ducks in the port but it was snowing too heavily for any pics.
Scruffy ones
The local Steller’s Sea Eagle sat in its tree all day out east and the Mountain Hawk-Eagle made a very distant fleeting appearance only.
Several rather scruffy White-tailed Eagles came a bit closer………….
Not much in the port: a few gulls, common ducks and this Black-necked Grebe.
