2018 Best Of #6

Some of the little birds from early summer.............

A couple of Phylloscopidae

There were 2 species of leaf warbler visiting the pool....................

A Late Spring Trip #6

There were several warbler species at the forest pool.................

A final visit to the pool.............

We went back to the forest pool the next day....................

Some common forest birds............

The forest pool is a good place for some of the commoner forest species, some of which are usually difficult to photograph....................

More visitors to the pool

 About a dozen species visted the small pool in the forest...............

Miiscellaneous

An Eastern Crowned Warbler at Onuma earlier in the week.

From April 29th to May 5th I had a lot of time off and it was all pretty hectic birdingwise and I updated my blog a lot, here's some of the other stuff I photographed in that time............

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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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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