2018 Best Of #6

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

North Hokkaido 2018 #12

Some birds from the way and way back.....................

More gold in the gloom

The Narcissus Flycatchers were still in the park last Saturday....................

Some Narcs in the gloom

Just outside town there is a park which is good for Narcissus Flycatchers.................

A pair of Narcs

Some Narcissus Flycatchers also frequented the pool near Shikotsuko.............

Some more Narcs

There is a park just outside town that is good for Narcissus Flycatchers...................

Some Monday Narcs

Some Narcissus Flycatchers from Onuma this morning............

On this day (May 11th).....................

May 11th 2012.

A male Narcissus Flycatcher in one of the local parks 6 years ago today. This was in the middle of a run of several springs when this species was a common passage visitor in the various parks in Hakodate but the last several years I've not seen so many in town............

2017 Best Of #5

Some more shots from earlier in the year, these are from spring.................

A family of flycatchers............

Some Narcissus Flycatchers from earlier in the week.....................

A Late Spring Trip #5

Some more pics from earlier in the week.................

More Narcissism

Lots of Narcissus Flycatchers again on Monday....................

A rainy morning in Onuma

It was raining heavily on Sunday....................

On this day (May 9th)..................

May 9th 2012.

A Narcissus Flycatcher in one of the local parks 5 years ago today.

This is one of the most attractive of the local summer visitors and on this day I got it doing something interesting and with a nice background to boot..........................

They haven't visited the local parks much the last 2 or 3 springs (or maybe I just missed them), I haven't seen any in town this year at all.

Ubiquitous

Red Necked Stints are ubiquitous at this time of year....................

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

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

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

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.

Narcissus in the mist............