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| Hakodate Birding |
Spring migrants in Hokkaido Got up before dawn this morning to go up Hakodateyama (not the mountain above) to check for migrants. It's pretty much the closest point in Hokkaido to the main island of Japan (Honshu) so at migration season there is a lot of stuff passing through. Unfortunately I seem to have been a couple of days too early (spring seems to be a week late this year) as many things I had expected to see weren't around. There's always next week............. Anyway there were SOME things around. Lots of Red Flanked Bluetails, Long Tailed Rosefinch, Black Faced and Siberian Meadow Buntings, a few singing Japanese Robin (and maybe some Siberian Blue Robin too-their songs are similar especially at a distance), a lone male Narcissus Flycatcher and 2 or 3 singing Grey Thrush. After heading back home for a nap we went to Onuma in the afternoon (see pic above). Lots of stuff in the forest. Spent ages trying to take pics of the Treecreepers/Nuthatches/Japanese Pygmy Woodepeckers but left without a single decent picture. Finished off at Shikabe. Scaup, Red Breasted Merganser, Black Scoter (displaying with their strange whistling calls), Goldeneye and a summer plumaged Red Necked Grebe were all on the sea. Congrats Arsenal. I see Wenger has gone back to George Graham era basics recently. 23:24 - 26/4/2006 - post comment
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