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End of year in Hokkaido Not a very successful day photo-wise. A White Tailed Eagle at Yakumo yesterday. The Stellers this winter have all decided to perch in places where motorists can't stop and where pedestrians can't safely stand either. Lots of the usual commoner winter stuff around today. Goshawk, Glaucous and 6 other species of Gull, various Tits and other commoner small birds, Whooper Swans, lots of Ducks and loads of grebes on the sea. Bobbing around hundreds of yards offshore these can be tricky to ID sometimes. Black Necked, Red Necked and Slavonian were all present.  A Slavonian Grebe. This female Peregrine was worrying all the gulls and Ducks.  The above pic especially shows digiscoping only works when you can get quite close to a bird. The Peregrine wasn't that far away but still way too far for a nice pic. Maybe I should have waved a dead pigeon around (or picked up a rotting Salmon for the Eagles) and I could have gotten these eating from my hand too. I didn't follow the cricket when we were driving around yesterday. When I left the house Australia were batting. When I got back England had lost. This blog will be wrapped up on Dec 31st. My new blog will be at the link to the right. 10:14 - 29/12/2006 - post comment
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