2018 Best Of #8

Some waders from spring/autumn 2018...................

Waders in the rain.............

Some more waders from near Tomakomai last week...........

Spring migration moving slowly still..........

We headed north yesterday.............

Spring underway

Spring was well underway on Sunday..................

A quiet day up north

The ports to the north of Yakumo were a bit quiet on Sunday...............

March in the ports............

The ports in SW Hokkaido can be productive in late winter.................

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...............

2017 Best Of #2

Some shots from Jan/Feb this year.............

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

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

A visitor from Russia

There were still a few White-tailed Eagles scattered around north of town.................

Some other harbour birds............

The local ports hold a lot of winter visitors and not only ducks..................

Autumn 2016

It felt very autumnal today...................

2016 wader season continues............

The weather was dull the last couple of days but at least there were waders on some of the beaches.................

Waderless

Typhoons, workload and various minor health ailments have kept me off the beaches this August more than I would have liked.................

Some April waders.........

Only a few passage waders around, so here is a summer visitor and a winter visitor from Sunday.............

A windy Sunday

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

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

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

Spring 2016 begins

A Dunlin near Oshamanbe this afternoon..................

A Monday in a harbour #1

Most of Monday was spent in a couple of ports north of Yakumo..............