A wet miserable White-tailed Eagle on a wet miserable Saturday afternoon near Mukawa.
Lathams’s Snipe habitats have been damaged by the absurd number of solar farms spring up all the time and replacing grassland.
Plus they’re difficult to perch on…see how this one slid all the way down.
This perch the next morning was slightly better…
These 2 White-tailed Eagles from this morning will surely be the last I see in south Hokkaido until November…
There were several immature White-tailed Eagles in the same area…
A White-tailed Eagle with a slab of pilfered fish…
The eagle eyed something worth nabbing…and down it swooped…
This adult White-tailed Eagle was eyeing scraps in the port…
Another dirtroadside eagle…
This immature White-tailed Eagle was in another port…
This adult was on a dirt road in the grasslands…
Some more early morning eagle BIFs…
Back in the port there were some Glaucous Gulls…
And the eagles were still being a little frisky…
The eagles looked good in the snow…
And here’s a frame-filling BIF…
Late on the second day it started snowing like s**t…
