Tag: Red-legged Kittiwake

I didn’t really get any good BIFs of the RLKs……………

In the car they were too close and it was difficult to track them with so little space to move plus when I got out it was too windy to hold the camera straight.

It was great to see a rare bird so close……………..and 9!

Of course with a 500 lens it was impossible to get all 9 together in one shot.

After Neil and Richard left we checked the port and were very surprised by what we found in one corner…………….

A flock of no less than NINE Red-legged Kittiwake…………………

A big typhoon hit east Hokkaido last week whilst we were there. It made us change our plans but on the day the typhoon hit I got messages that the typhoon had blown some pretty interesting seabirds into the port at Kiritappu (our original destination) so we braved the typhoon and headed down there…………….

2 birders, Neil and Richard, were already there and there were indeed lots of seabirds around. It was really windy, pretty dark and raining heavily.

Red-legged Kittiwakes are one of the most sought-after east Asian gulls and pretty soon one flew past and I got out of the car to brave the elements and managed to snap a few BIF record shots.