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The last port Call

April 11, 2022 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Wildfowl
Black Scoter

I won’t be heading up to Oshamambe/Yakumo for a couple of weeks and by then the ports will probably be empty of ducks as they will have headed north…

Yesterday both Black Scoter and Great Scaup were abundant.

Great Scaup
Black Scoter
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A default port bird

December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Hokuto, Wildfowl
Great Scaup

A quiet lazy Sunday but I stopped by one of the local ports and there were some Scaup diving and catching fish…

Great Scaup
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Winter birds arriving

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Gulls, Hokuto, Wildfowl
Glaucous-winged Gull

Lots of common winter gulls and ducks around now as well as the first swans and geese.

A very quiet last 3 weeks for various reasons, these photos were all just outside town this afternoon.

Black-headed Gull
Great Scaup
Great Egret
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The Funny Side

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Wildfowl, Yakumo
Great Scaup

Even with the global pandemic and all the nonsense going on in America over the last 2 months this Scaup still found the time to have a good laugh today.

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While I was waiting

January 27, 2020 by Stuart Price, posted in Esan, Wildfowl
Red-breasted Merganser

There were quite a few birds in the port whilst I was waiting in vain for the Steller’s Sea Eagle to move…….

Red-breasted Merganser, Scaup, Common Goldeneye, Black-necked Grebe, Pelagic Cormorant and Glaucous-winged Gull to be exact.

Great Scaup
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A sunny day in the port

November 10, 2019 by Stuart Price, posted in Wildfowl, Yakumo
Great Scaup

There were a group of Great Scaup in the harbour at Yakumo diving and coming up with what looked like bits of Salmon. I guess some Salmon aiming for the river got lost and ended up perishing in the port………….

The Scaup were joined by a lone Pochard who got in on the act too.

Common Pochard
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