Back in town, these were taken with my old 100-400 and a 1.4 T/C. Not so many keepers with this old lens so much easier to sort through………….
The only wader species around was the ubiquitous Red-necked Stint. A flock of about 15 of them.
Some of you may have the image in your head that Japan is a clean ordered society.
And that’s all. A great afternoon with a group of stints. See you next year hopefully.
Yet more stints from last Monday.
Some more stint close-ups.
So photogenic………….
I tried some high shutter speeds to get pics of running stints……
I took a lot of shots as you can see.
I never tire of watching them poke around in the quiet corners of a beach……..
I spent 2 or 3 hours on a local beach sat on a discarded buoy with a very tame flock of Red-necked Stints…………….
I was hoping to find a Little Stint among them but failed.
Lots of Stints near Hakodate too…………
And the other common passage wader……………
The juvenile Red-necked Stints showed almost no fear……………a lot of shots were ruined because it was too close to focus.
I tried to get some Sand Martin pics: there were lots of them flying around. Very tricky. This was the best of a bad bunch.
