
I went north with a friend and we checked out a site north of Sapporo. We were looking for Brown Shrike but couldn’t locate any. There were lots of other commoner birds around at least, like this Reed Bunting.


Some other commn birds from Kiritappu. Common Reed Buntings were singing all over the place and up above Pacific Swifts were hawking……….
Offshore were Specatcled Guiilemot and Rhinoceros Auklet, several White-tailed Eagles were in the area and the usual common Hokkaido summer birds like Siberian Stonechat were present.
Latham’s Snipe were displaying above our campsite and at night you could hear the strange calls of Laech’s Petrels coming ashore……………