Autumnal Eagles

The Eagles at Yakumo are still skittish and mostly distant but at least they looked nice in the autumnal light............

Eagles in the mist...............

Up in Yakumo this morning it was very misty................

Seven

All the regular 7 winter gull species were at Kamiiso today.....................

Autumn continues..............

We are in the middle of a beautiful spell of autumn weather..................

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

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

A rainy Thursday

I have 5 days off so of course it started raining on the first of those..............

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

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

Some later winter miscellany

We visited the ports north of Yakumo hoping to find some Long-tailed Ducks............

Playing the percentages..........

The snow is so deep that we gave up going to Onuma and headed east yet again where we know that a) the weather and roads are mysteriously much better and b) there are a handful eagles more or less guaranteed..........

Another Monday in the ports.........

We visited several ports to the east of Onuma this afternoon.................

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

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

Another Sunday out east..............

On a bitterly cold Sunday we headed east of town again.................

One good tern.................

Another typhoon hit Japan this weekend.................

Winter visitors

I had a couple of surprises at Oshamanbe the yesterday................

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

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

A quiet Sunday out east

We spent a quiet Sunday afternoon to the east of town.................

A quiet Monday

A very low-key Monday....................

Autumn 2016

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

'Winter' visitor

It's a crap picture, a scruffy gull on a garbage strewn beach.............but it's the first 'winter' visitor to arrive in 2016/17. An adult Glaucous Winged Gull.

A beautiful clear late summer day day but not much around birdwise. Red-necked Stints, Grey-tailed Tattlers, Japanese Green Pigeons, that's about it and nothing posing for the camera.

Some March BIFs

Nice light meant some BIF photo opps yesterday...............