Some of the commoner birds in the park this morning…
Golden Week 2022 #26
Tag: Varied Tit
A grey Christmas Day
Wow it was cold today…
Although east of town doesn’t have much snow.
Back in town there were blizzards.
Not there
There has been a family of Oriental Scops Owls showing well in one of the local parks and we went to look for them this morning……………….but couldn’t find them.
Quite a few birds around though: Coal and Varied Tit, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Common Crossbill, Narcissus Flycatcher and Kamchatka Leaf Warbler.
The local bird
Varied Tit is Hakodate’s ‘official’ bird.
Here is one in one of the local parks yesterday.
2020 begins
January 1st was a write-off with blizzards and hangover knocking any ideas of birding on the head.
Today we headed east on white snowbound roads. In one park in town we got a few common species like the above Varied Tit as well as Crossbill and Eurasian Sparrowhawk and a flock of unidentified Waxwings seen briefly from the car.
The Mountain Hawk-Eagle spot had no raptors at al except for a flyover Peregrine and a few Black Kites. There were only a few Kittiwakes around compared to last week. Other stuff of interest included Blue Rock Thrush, Glaucous-winged Gull, Harlequin Duck, Black-necked Grebe and White-tailed Eagle.
Varied Tit
Lots of Varied Tits around today, the above one was at Onuma. They are starting to come down from the hills……………..