About a dozen or so wader species yesterday…
And several of these around too…
Some more early September waders
Tag: Common Kingfisher
f/11 shots from the weekend
Quite happy with some of these shots…
A brief visit
My first pics of this species with the f/11 lens…
Quiet start to August
A cloudy humid day…not as many birds around as last week. This Kingfisher was in a good spot but I was high on the bank so I waited for it to fly off. I went down to a much better spot waiting for it to come back but it never did…
Waiting
I was waiting for a Water Rail to appear. It didn’t. But there were plenty of Kingfishers….
Not only waders
Not only waders on the beach this morning. Hundreds of hirundines of all 3 common species and some Kingfishers in a creek.
A grey Monday in October
A quiet day at Yakumo with a few slightly interesting species: 6 species of gull including Black-legged Kittiwake and Glaucous-winged Gull, several skuas way offshore (Pomarine I think), Great Egret, lots of Pintail and Wigeon, Stejneger’s Scoter………….
Among the gulls were lots of Vega Gull: a common passage migrant in Hokkaido.
The Kingfishers posed for the camera………………
At Onuma there was a big flock of swans in one corner of the lake but I couldn’t get a clear view from the car: they were probably Bewick’s on their way south.
A long one
This Kingfisher at Yakumo caught an odd-looking fish.
It took it a couple of minutes to swallow it………….
It was a dark, wet humid day. The wader passage has started at least: 1 Mongolian Plover, 1 Kentish Plover, 6 Grey-tailed Tattler, 2 Terek Sandpiper and 2 Red-necked Stint. The first Black-headed Gulls are passing through too.
Final Kingfishers
The last shots of Thursday’s Kingfisher………..
More of the Kingfisher
Some more shots of the tame Kingfisher from earlier in the week…………
Tiddlers
The Kingfisher was catching a lot of very small fish…………
A few other poses
A few more shots of the Kingfisher from yesterday…………….
