Pretty quiet near Hakodate yesterday…but a few waders were on the beach.
Back near home
Tag: Red-necked Stint
Stints contd…
Stint reflections
A quiet Sunday on the beach
A bit quiet yesterday near Yakumo: but at least there were a couple of tame stints…
Some unobtrusive ones
Some Red-necked Stints poke around in the flotsam and jetsam and you don’t notice them until you almost stand on them…
More September Stints…
Common and probably to many local birders not very interesting. But I love ’em.
I got this burst lying down on a non-muddy part of the beach.
September Stints
Ubiquitous at this time of year…
A hot Sunday afternoon
A hot sunny afternoon: terrible light for photos. Quite a few nice birds around: the above scruffy Stejneger’s Scoter was a surprise. This Marsh Sandpiper was on one of the beaches with some stints…
Other stuff around included flocks of White-throated Needletail and Pacific Swift, Osprey, Peregrine, several Great Egret…
But as I said the light was not helpful.
Stints
Quite a few stints passing through now…
A lull
We headed north today but it was a bit quiet. There were a few Buff-bellied Pipits passing through and a couple of Red-necked Stints in summer plumage. But not much else…
Back in town
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.
Enough
And that’s all. A great afternoon with a group of stints. See you next year hopefully.
