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Some more spring port birds…

March 28, 2022April 13, 2022 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds, Wildfowl
Long-tailed Duck

This male Long-tailed Duck was coming into breeding plumage…

This Sanderling isn’t yet:

Sanderling

I was trying my hardest to get photos of this species. Stejneger’s Scoter, but they never seem to come close.

These were on the sea, not in the port and is a very heavy crop.

Stejneger’s Scoter
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On the way…

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 by Stuart Price, posted in Gulls, Oshamambe, Raptors, Shorebirds
White-tailed Eagle

We went away for a week and just got back. These were some of the regular local winter birds we saw on the way there….

Glaucous-winged Gull
Sanderling
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More lamp post eagles

January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Raptors, Shorebirds
Steller’s Sea Eagle
Steller’s Sea Eagle

Never really seen them do this down here in SW Hokkaido. I guess they’re really hungry. Or maybe they do this every early morning in this spot and I’m never there to see it..?

On the way back some Sanderlings were in their usual spot too.

Sanderling
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A pair of winter waders

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

Waders are scarce in Hokkaido in winter but one port near Oshamambe has a small overwintering flock of Sanderling and another port has a small flock of Dunlin…

Dunlin
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Early winter on the sea

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Pelagic Cormorant

I stood on one of the harbour walls near Oshamanbe and there were lots of birds on the sea: Red-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck, Black and Stejneger’s Scoters, 3 species of grebe…

And the flock of Sanderling that seems to overwinter in this spot did a nice fly-by.

Sanderling
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A quiet Sunday again

September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

A very quiet day locally on Sunday. Only Sanderlings to photograph.

Sanderling
Sanderling
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Tame

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

The Sanderlings were very tame.

Sanderling
Sanderling

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Settled

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

The Sanderlings were in the same place, which we visited right at the end of the trip.

Sanderling
Sanderling
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And more Sanderlings

September 12, 2021September 25, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

Also around were a few Red-necked Stint, a lone Dunlin and Grey-tailed Tattler, a flock of Kentish Plover, a couple of Mongolian Plover and a Common Ringed Plover which despite its name is a scarce bird in Japan.

Sanderling
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More Sanderlings

September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

Most of the flock seemed to be adults in winter plumage, or already moulted juveniles but the above bird is in full juvenile regalia I think.

Sanderling
Sanderling
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Some Sanderlings

September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Oshamambe, Shorebirds
Sanderling

Last March, when I was checking a new location for me, I found a flock of Sanderlings, a bird I’d never seen in winter before. I guessed maybe they overwinter every year.

Today in the same place I found a flock of the same species. Have they returned for the winter?

Sanderling
Sanderling
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A grey Sunday in August

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 by Stuart Price, posted in Shorebirds, Yakumo
Sanderling

After an extremely hot 3 weeks a typhoon hit south Hokkaido and temperatures dropped dramatically in the space of a couple of days. Weird weather…………

A few common waders were around and the only typhoon-blown birds was this flock of Red-necked Pharalope…………….

Red-necked Pharalope
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