Last Eagles of 2018............

Today was probably my last trip up to Yakumo this calendar year...........

Some Christmas Eagles

We spent Christmas Eve daytime up in Yakumo.............

2018 Best Of #9

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

Mild weather returns

After a lot of snow last week it was mild again today.............

Some Eagle BIFs

The eagles are slowly getting more approachable. Though of course they still generally fly off..........

A roadside Eagle

It was very mild on Monday, warm in fact and we were up in Yakumo..........

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

The end of autumn approaches..........

It was another mild autumn weekend, surely the last one before the weather turns.............

2018 Eagles arrived...............

The eagles have started arriving for the winter..................

2018 best of #1

Some shots from last winter.....................

The nearest one..........

I've seen quite a lot of this individual eagle this winter.................

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 snowbound Sunday...........

Another week of snow.................

A Freezing Monday

Wow, today was cold. In Hakodate it's been snowing heavily all day and there has been a bitterly cold wind blowing in from Siberia.

The roads and weather were too nasty to head up to Onuma so we went east again where the weather always seem to be better. And indeed it was (although it was even colder there on the coast). Even blue skies sometimes.

The local Stellers Sea Eagle flew around a bit and there were a couple of White-tailed Eagles, a Common Buzzard, 2 Peregrine and the usual common ducks and gulls.

Did I say it was cold?

Eagle trio

We headed east on Sunday................

A sleety Sunday

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

An early finish............

There weren't so many eagles at Yakumo yesterday...............

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

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

A sunny Sunday

It was a fine sunny day today after several days of heavy snow. The roads were a bit nasty so we headed east..............

The above Stellers Sea Eagle seems to be in the same place every winter: there were also 2 White-tailed Eagle, 1 Goshawk, 1 Peregrine, a few Black-legged Kittiwake still around, a lone Black-necked Grebe, Brent Goose, Harlequin Duck, Red-breasted Merganser and Siberian Meadow Bunting...........

The Japanese Waxwing were still around as we drove past........................