2018 Best Of #3

Some more shots from earlier in the year...............

A very grey June weekend.............

Some rotten weather at the weekend...............

Spring ducks

Late March is usually a good time for wildfowl..............

Black Scoters

Whilst waiting for the rain to stop before we started chasing Snow Buntings we stopped in a nearby port................

Some miscellaneous winter birds..............

A Dunlin north of town a couple of days ago....................

2017 Best Of #4

Some more shots from earlier in the year: these are all from March and early April...............

A Late Spring Trip #8

A while ago we noticed an injured Black Scoter in a port to the north of town.............

Some more repeats............

Last Monday we were in Oshamanbe and Yakumo.............

Another one out of the water

We found another Long-tailed Duck out of the water last Wednesday...................

A lot of ducks

On Wednesday there were a lot of ducks around...................

Survivor

The sick looking Black Scoter we saw over a week ago was still there...............

Another fine spring day...........

Monday was another beautiful cloudless spring day in south Hokkaido..............

Some more port birds...........

An Asian Rosy Finch from Sunday afternoon..............

A sunny Monday in late February #2

Some more shots from Monday.................

Winter bites back......................

A Buff-bellied Pipit in Shizunai a couple of days ago.

We just got back from a short trip that was somewhat spoiled by the weather........................

A couple of ducks.........

A windy Sunday

A cold wind was blowing from Siberia today................

A couple of days away..............

I just got back from a short break................

Black and White Sunday

Sometimes it really is a case of black or white.............

A quiet week in mid March..............

An out of foocus immature Goshawk on the edge of town today................

It's been a quiet few days.