Some winter gulls…
Late Winter Trip 2023 #27
Tag: Glaucous-winged Gull
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.
A cold Monday
A cold day in the port. 2 Steller’s around but no decent photos, had to pass time photographing gulls and kites…
Black, white and grey
A dark, grey snowy Sunday with some common winter birds to match…
A grey Monday in January
A dark mild sleety day east of town today…
I was waiting for the Steller’s to leave its perch and do something interesting. It didn’t…
There were some other birds around. Lots of Goldeneye, the above Slav and various gulls including this Glaucous-winged.
Some rivermouth gulls
There were 8 or 9 gull species at the rivermouth in Yakumo the weekend before last…including lots of kittiwakes.
And the various winter gulls…
Back in town
Very autumnal in Hakodate. Some birds around too: 3 Great Egret on the river near my place as well as Brown Dipper, Grey Wagtail and Hawfinch. Lots of common ducks around as well.
And the winter gulls are here…
A grey Sunday in late October
Winter birds are arriving…
Early morning in the port
The port was pretty quiet in the morning, just a few gulls sitting around in the morning sun…
I was very surprised to see these 3 stilts on one of the nearby rivers: never seen them so early in the season before. They looked cold…
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 2 #2
Winter gulls are still much in evidence in Hokkaido in March…
On the way…
We went away for a week and just got back. These were some of the regular local winter birds we saw on the way there….
A couple of port birds
Not many birds in the port at Oshamambe, only a few Scaup and Goldeneye and a small flock of Wigeon. And this Black-throated Diver, which I’ve seen several times this winter.
Gull numbers also seemed to be picking up slightly…
