Bird Watching in Japan & Asia: Birdwatching in Tokachi near Obihiro (November 7-9, 2021)

2021-11-27

Birdwatching in Tokachi near Obihiro (November 7-9, 2021)

Tokachi is the vast and fertilized plain and is well known agricultural area for potato, sweet cone, carrot, green soybean, etc.

It is an important passage ground for geese including White-fronted, Bean and less common Cackling and Snow Goose.

My target was photographing a flock of Snow and Cackling Goose. Unfortunately, most of them had already left there and moved to Honshu before I arrived there. However, I was still able to photograph some of the target species.

Observed species during the three days are as below.

Bean Goose (both Taiga and Tundra Bean Goose), White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Cackling Goose, Whooper Swan, Mallard, Spot-billed Duck, Common Teal, Smew, Common Merganser, Red-crowned Crane, Coot, Black-eared Kite, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Hen Harrier, Japanese Buzzard, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Peregrine Falcon, Eurasian Jay, Carrion Crow, Large-billed Crow, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Varied Tit, Coal Tit, Japanese Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Eurasian Nuthatch, White-cheeked Starling, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Buff-bellied Pipit, Oriental Greenfinch, Yellow-throated Bunting