Not only ducks, grebes and divers…
Spring port birds…
Tag: Dunlin
Tag-free
The wintering Dunlin flock are showing some summer colours…
The tagged individual (from NE Siberia) didn’t return this winter sadly…
A preener
October Dunlins
There were a few Dunlin on the beach in Oshamanbe…
Whether these were part of the small wintering flock there or others just passing through I don’t know.
Some more common waders
Wader season is in full swing. At the weekend I saw Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, lots of Red-necked Stint and these 2 common species…
Dunlins poking around
The Dunlins were poking around in the port again…
Weird to see them feeding on concrete.
The Russians…
I often photograph Dunlins in winter: one flock visits the same general area every year. The flock had been declining in number sadly, only about 21 or so this year. One shows flags indicating it was ringed in the far northeast of Russia, in Kamchatka.
I hope the numbers recover.
A dark snowy late Sunday afternoon
The same (?) diver a couple of hours later as it was getting dark: R5 and DXO saved the shot…
The port was very quiet: just a few Scaup, a single Goldeneye, hardly any gulls even. The flock of Dunlin was poking around at least.
A pair of winter waders
Waders are scarce in Hokkaido in winter but one port near Oshamambe has a small overwintering flock of Sanderling and another port has a small flock of Dunlin…
A jogging Dunlin
More shots from earlier in the week.
In between jogs it fed.
A lone one
There were lots of stints but not many other wader species around. Just 1 Dunlin in fact…………..
More waders from the corner
The Dunlin and Red-necked Stints were in a corner of the beach picking food from the rotting flotsam and jetsam.
