The Osprey and Red-necked Stint are both August staples…
I got my first Black-headed Gull of the ‘season’ as well as a couple of Black Scoter in one of the ports…
A winter returnee among August staples
Tag: Osprey
Oops
If I’d had my big lens or if I’d been able to go through the head-high weeds to get a better view/angle or if I’d got the settings right…I could have gotten a classic Osprey shot. But I didn’t.
Hot
Well it’s been a bit warm recently. Not much birding; this Osprey was in town last weekend…
Not rare
Some of the standard summer birds at Yakumo…
Tap turned off
Some one turned the tap off; no more crossbills or other interesting birds near my flat anymore…
The last 2 days saw beautiful weather with a few birds around west of town. I was waiting for a Red-necked Grebe in summer plumage to come close. It didn’t but some of its common relatives did.
Spring for sure
Lots of osprey around yesterday and also the first Stonechats of the year, the first singing Japanese Bush Warblers, the first Little Ringed Plover…
There was a flock of 100 or so Greater White-fronted Geese at Yakumo, Gadwall, Shoveler and some sunset swans…
Some B/W Monday shots
It was a grey Monday. But the Ospreys are back; I’d seen several already the previous week before this one flew over low.
Sometimes the ports are full of Black-necked Grebes in summer plumage in March. Not yet this year. And there were only 2.
6400
ISO 6400 for these!
Success
We hung around long enough to see the Osprey grab a (small) fish…
A stop at a rivermouth
We stopped at Yakumo on the way back from our trip…
An Osprey was fishing just offshore.
Not great conditions for BIfs.
A local Osprey
There were several Ospreys fishing at the mouth of one of the local rivers…
More Osprey pics
A lot of coming and going on the Osprey stack..
Plus some merciless harrying from the local Black-tailed Gulls…
