2018 Best Of #9

A final batch of photos from the last year.................

A grey Monday in mid November

Still no real signs of winter weather..................

Autumn Staples

Harlequin Ducks arrive back on the coast in October....................

2018 Best Of #3

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

50 almost up

Holy s**t: I turn 50 tomorrow.

Hoarding

One of the disadvantages of having cheap external hard drives with lots of space is the accumulation of thousands of photos...............

A rainy Sunday in mid April

It was raining all day today...................

Early spring miscellany

On Sunday we headed north.............

Some early April birds.........

I concentrated on the Nutcrackers yesterday but there were some other birds around...............

Spring ducks

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

A rainy Thursday

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

A sleety Sunday

We headed out east today...................

A quiet Sunday

A Slaty-backed Gull trying to swallow a big shell......................

Some Harlequin Ducks

We were out east yesterday and the Kittiwakes were still around...............

2017 Best of #9

A final batch of photos from this year.................

2017 Best of #8

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

Winter 2017/18 begins

The first real snow hit town this morning.....................

Like moving house.............

Some Harlequin Ducks to the east of town this morning....................

A lot of ducks

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

A couple of common harbour birds

East of Hakodate, Brent Geese and Harlequin Ducks are common winter visitors.............