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Stellers Sea Eagles An adult Stellers Sea Eagle at Yakumo this morning. There were about 10 or so Stellers and a dozen or so White Tailed Eagles on hillsides of the Yurappu River. Annual visitors, they'll peak at about 60-70 individuals (with slightly more White Taileds) when winter starts to bite. Often they perch obligingly quite close to a Car Park near the river but not today-this bird was a couple of hundred yards away. This is the usual view of the Eagles. They're after the Salmon, which are abundant in the river.  3 Stellers and 1 White Tailed. Other stuff upstream included Brown Dipper, Japanese Wagtail, Goosander, Marsh Tit and Eurasian Jay. Downstream at the rivermouth not so many winter birds were in evidence-a few Goldeneye, Scaup, lots of Pintail and these Great White Egrets (there were 13 in all). This species seems to be regular around here in late autumn/early winter. Where do they come from? I'm not sure they breed in Hokkaido. Eastern Russia perhaps?  Snow on the hills and most of the vegetation is as dead as Liverpool's title challenge. 16:57 - 15/11/2006 - post comment
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