2018 Best Of #8

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

No Bear Sunday

We spent a dark grey Sunday unsuccessfully looking for the Brown Bear I'd seen earlier in the week..............

More sunny days

I just had 3 days off and though the weather was very good I didn't come away with many pics...........

2018 late Summer trip #3

 The second day of our short trip was windy but sunny...................

2018 late Summer trip #2

Although we stayed in Oshamanbe waders were pretty thin on the ground compared to Yakumo...............

Another wader season begins...............

Some Red-necked Stints near Yakumo this afternoon..............

2017 Best of #9

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

A Late One

Beautiful autumnal weather today but not much about................

End of wader season...........

The wader season for 2017 seems to have come to an end in SW Hokkaido................

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

We went camping the last couple of nights and we had to hastily change our plans after we heard a Spoon-billed Sandpiper was present near Sapporo.....

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A Bar-tailed Godwit near Oshamanbe today........................

A lone one

There was the grand total of ONE Red-necked Stint at Kamiiso the other day.............

Another Weekend Away #2

Last weekend there were small flocks of Red-necked Stints on many of the beaches north of town.............

World War 3

A Red-necked Stint in town yesterday.............

A night away

We went camping a few days ago.................

Sun shines

This August's weather has been awful..................

Another batch of common waders...........

There were quite a few waders on the beach near Yakumo on Monday..................

Some more common waders..........

Sunday and Monday were dark overcast days, not good for photography but there were quite a few waders around...........

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

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

Local specialities

Hakodate is famous for seafood and in particular crab...................the Black Tailed Gull above fits in nicely then.

Not much else around, here's some Red Necked Stint, part of a small flock at Kamiiso this morning.