Tag: Bohemian Waxwing

They’d been there for a week and their numbers had grown……………….

Wonder if Hakodate will get another influx?

2020 will go down in history for other more important things but here in Hokkaido one thing I’ll remember is the number of Waxwings. From late January to late February and again in late November/early December. Loads of ’em.

These ones in Yakumo were not as tame and easy to photograph as the ones near my apartment last winter.

The mixed waxwing flock was still in Yakumo and the numbers had increased: well over 100 now.

The weather was not good: dark and snowing most of the time.

The blue in the background is not sky: just the wall of a building………….

There was quite a big flock of waxwings in Yakumo last weekend. Most were Japanese Waxwings…………

But there were a few Bohemians mixed in too…………….

There were also a few Crossbill around. Waxwings and Crossbills both had huge invasions into south Hokkaido last winter so I wasn’t expecting to see either of them much this time round.