A Slav

A Slavonian Grebe just west of town this afternoon. Not much else about: a few Whooper Swans, the usual wildfowl including Black Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, Glaucous and Glaucous-winged Gulls and Great Egret............

2018 Best Of #3

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

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

We were out west on Monday.................

A sunny springlike Monday

Monday was a sunny spring day.............

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

2017 Best Of #2

Some shots from Jan/Feb this year.............

A quiet Sunday again

 The Ospreys in various sites were nowhere near as co-operative as last week but yesterday there were at least things to see offshore like the above Slavonian Grebe which was looking nice in almost full summer plumage.

Other stuff included Great-crested and Red-necked Grebes (also in SP), Rhinoceros Auklet, Black-throated Diver, the usual common ducks, Brent Goose and a lone White-fronted Goose, The first Stonechats of the year have arrived and the spring migration season should get moving really soon.................

2017 begins...........

We headed west of Hakodate today..................

A hungry Monday

I'm in the middle of a couple of rather unpleasant days..................

Grey Friday

I had a couple of spare hours this afternoon and I could check the port at Kamiiso.................

More blizzards

Just 2 grebes in the harbour at Kamiiso today, this Slavonian and another Black Necked. 2 or 3 Scaup and a couple of Pochard were the only other birds present..................

Grebes still around..............

The grebes were still at Kamiiso this afternoon. The top one is a Slavonian Grebe and the bottom one a Black Necked Grebe.

Both the above shots are uncropped as are many below: they were pretty tame..............

A break in the blizzards..............

Slavonian Grebe this afternoon................

A brief break in the snow saw us in Kamiiso for an hour or so.............

Grebes in the blizzards.............

There were 4 species of grebe in Kamiiso today......................

The prodigal Owl

A Ural Owl at Onuma this afternoon, the first one I'd seen in this hole for over a year............

Autumn still hanging on

A Varied Tit at Onuma yesterday. It was a very mild day with beautiful autumn sunshine, at Yakumoearlier in the day it was so mild I took off my down jacket AND fleece.

Yet more red eyes in the harbour

I went back to Kamiiso a couple of days to get a better close up shot of the Slavonian Grebe and I managed it....................just minutes before I had to dash to catch the train home.

It popped up a few feet away, shame it when the sun was behind a cloud.

I'd been waiting a couple of hours. At first there were only a few Black Necked Grebes. They were catching little shrimps from the seabed.

There were also 3 or 4 Great Crested Grebe.

I wanted a shot of the Slav/Black Necked together but couldn't get it................

Not much else about...................but missions accomplished.

Shame a Red Necked Grebe couldn't have swum in to complete the set......................

Just when I thought Liverpool might just have an outside chance of 4th they throw away a 2 goal lead at one of their main rivals FFS.
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Sunday eagles and grebes

Some birds from my day out today...............

I went up to Yakumo in the morning (thanks Tomohiro) and there were still good numbers of eagles but most of them have moved downstream.............we discovered this after searching in vain upstream and then not having enough time to do them justice later.

Only distant views of Stellers today.............

This male White Tailed was right next to the road.

The main action was on the bridges near the coast, hopefully I can get back there next weekend.

Not much else around, a pair of Long Billed Plovers being the most interesting.

In the afternoon I was in Kamiiso, there were 3 species of grebe in the harbour again. Half a dozen each of Black Necked and Great Crested (above) and the lone Slavonian from a few days ago was still around.

I wish it popped up close by in good light like the Black Neckeds do.

I tried to get both species together but fialed, apart from this lame effort.

 My wife says they all look the same anyway.


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