We slept in the car Sunday night so as to be in Oshamanbe early in the morning.
High high ISO here…
Helps if birds are white…
A noisy morning
Tag: White-tailed Eagle
Too far away…
Well this one wasn’t…
No eagles at all upstream at Yakumo but there were some some near the river mouth. And one of them actually got a salmon…
Just a bit far off for photos though.
Another youngster
An immature White-tailed Eagle, presumably a first-year bird?
Apart from the eagles, upstream at Yakumo there were also Japanese Wagtail, Brown Dipper, Eurasian Jay, Crested Kingfisher and a few common tits and woodpeckers….
Another returnee
This (male?) White-tailed Eagle has been returning to the same spot in Yakumo for many years now…and he’s pretty tame too.
Not much else around in Yakumo on Friday: the most interesting species was harlequin Duck. We don’t normally see them here but there were at least 4 around including this first winter male upstream…
Winding down
A quick trip out east today. Not much about except for a few raptors, gulls and ducks…
Not a great day for photos again, for various reasons I’ve been struggling a bit recently to get any nice shots at all.
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #12
A rare melanistic Red Fox from last week…
Apart from geese there were lots of Japanese Crane and flocks of Buff-bellied Pipit in the fields.
Raptors included distant Merlin and Hen Harrier as well as several White-tailed Eagles (the latter are probably resident in the area).
Autumn here
The resident Slaty-backed and Black-tailed Gulls have been joined by some others. Lots of Vega Gulls last weekend as well as these 2.
There were also Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, various ducks, lots of Great Egret and this lone wader.
Upstream there were a few salmon (but not many: hope this just means they’re late) and the first eagle of the season. Crappy pic but always nice to see the first one.
A drizzly Saturday
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…
Surely the last?
These 2 White-tailed Eagles from this morning will surely be the last I see in south Hokkaido until November…
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 5 #4
There were several immature White-tailed Eagles in the same area…
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 5 #3
A White-tailed Eagle with a slab of pilfered fish…
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 5 #2
The eagle eyed something worth nabbing…and down it swooped…
