Showing posts with label Blue and White Flycatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue and White Flycatcher. Show all posts

15 May 2018

On this day (May 15th)................


May 15th 2013.

A male Blue and White Flycatcher in one of the local parks 5 years ago today. There was an astonishing fall of common migrants that lasted several days that week: low pressure, cool temperatures and very low cloud caused it I think.................in the subsequent years the same park has been very quiet since.

2 May 2016

Monday morning blues



A male Blue and White Flycatcher and a male Narcissus Flycatcher, 2 of the most striking summer visitors to Hokkaido.

We were on the east coast early in the morning (where these 2 photos were taken) and Onuma this afternoon. The forests were full of summer migrants............in addition to the above 2 species there were loads of Eastern Crowned Warbler and Japanese Thrush singing. Brown Thrush, Japanese Robin and Asian Stubtail were also around..............it was the start of another long days birding.

11 April 2014

Meet the locals #8

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Blue and White FlycatcherCyanoptila cyanomelana

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Another in my occasional series of local species not well known outside the region...........


20 May 2013

2 days off so the weather is crap. Again.


4 Harlequin Duck at Kamiiso yesterday. They are in moult and take shelter in the river................

The weather has been crappy the last 2 days..................a bit annoying after the great weather last week when I was busy. At Kamiiso yasterday there wasn&t much about. 10 Grey Tailed Tattler, 1 Dunlin and 3 Common Sandpiper were the only waders. A handful of duck remained. 2 Black Scoter were offshore and there were a few Scaup too.


A Red Throated Diver was offshore and in the ricefields whilst i was looking for waders (nothing doing there) I saw my first Oriental Honey Buzzard of the summer.

Today in Goryokaku Park the weather was very dark and grey but many of the migrant species were still in evidence. Asian Brown, Narcissus and Blue and White Flycatchers, Eastern Crowned and Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Japanese White-eye, Common Crossbill and I even heard an Oriental Cuckoo.............

Not many photos, here's a Blue and White Flycatcher.



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18 May 2013

More of the same but less


Yet another male Narcissus Flycatcher near my apartment.........

After Wednesday's fall of migrants the weather improved but I had to return to work (the inconvenience!) so could only spend a little time in Goryokaku Park chasing the migrants around the cherry blossoms.

All the same species were around but on Thursday they were much more active and on Friday the numbers had dropped quite a bit...............










Not so many Blue and White Flycatchers...................


This is a female.......................



Some Eye Browed Thrush remained too..............





And there were still lots of Eastern Crowned Warbler....................





Many of the same species were on the river..........in fact all of the flycatchers amnd warblers. Also passing through was a lone Common Sandpiper, 6 Night Heron and the first Oriental Reed Warblers of the summer arrived on the 15th.................


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17 May 2013

Migrants galore on a dark dark day




A male Blue and White Flycatcher and a male Narcissus Flycatcher.

I had a day off on the 14th and spent most of it in Goryokaku Park. There were lots of migrants about. I don't know how many but seriously there were f***ing loads.  Birds were buzzing around everywhere, it was like something out of a Disney movie.

The light was very poor and there was the constant threat of drizzle. I suspect the poor weather was the reason so many migrants were grounded..................the chilliness also meant they were pretty lethargic and easy to approach. The nasty weather also meant the park wasn't so busy...............

Blue and White Flycatchers were still very common................





And Narcissus Flycatchers were even more numerous, loads of them, everywhere.




The males were at various stages of moult, some of them hadn't quite acheived the full summer look yet...............






As you can see they were just sitting around on walls....................






The above 2 (and yesterday's post with The Siberian Blue Robin) were the stars of tha day but there were lots of other migrants around too.

Asian Brown Flycatcher for starters.



I couldn't find any Sooty Flycatchers...................there are a bogey species for me..............

There were 5 species of thrush. Japanese and Dusky plus these 3............

First Pale Thrush...........



And Eye Browed Thrush.................




And finally Brown Thrush...........................



Both Eastern Crowned and Sakhalin Leaf Warblers were common................



Other stuff included large restless flocks of Japanese White-eye, Siskin, a few Crossbill, Olive Backed Pipit, Japanese Bush Warbler and this drake Shoveler on the moat..............


Of course once I was busy again at work the weather improved dramatically.

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