Today was probably my last trip up to Yakumo this calendar year...........
We were showing Mike and Carrie the eagles.
They are visiting Japan from Hong Kong and Mike is a keen birder who wanted to see Steller's Sea Eagle for the first time.
And see them we did.
The weather was pretty rotten and the roads were a bit nasty.
The eagles were performing well but not so many good photos today. These are all White-tailed Eagles:
I thought I had found another lifer for Mike. Solitary Snipe. I thought I saw 2 (!) of them in the morning before we picked them up and amazingly a single (ahem) Solitary Snipe was at the same creek in Onuma on the way home............only later on to discover they were in fact just Woodcock. In my defence I though Woodcock were only summer visitors to Hokkaido. And they were flushed from a semi frozen stream..............a last birdingfail for 2018.
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