Bird Watching in Japan & Asia: Oriental Greenfinch

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2020-12-15

Birdwatching in Choshi, Hasaki, Katori and Itako (13 December 2020)

Yellow-bellied Tit is a lifer for me. It is rather small and restless. So hard to shoot photos. Besides the tits, there were very few birds. Normally, about 10 species of gulls are seen. However, only four species were seen.

In Katori and Itako, some raptors were seen well.

1. Gadwall 2. Eastern Spot-billed Duck 3. Northern Pintail 4. Common Teal 5. Common Pochard 6. Tufted Duck 7. Greater Scaup 8. Red-breasted Merganser 9. Black-necked Grebe 10. Great Crested Grebe 11. Oriental Turtle Dove 12. Pelagic Cormorant 13. Temminck's Cormorant 14. Grey Heron 15. Great Egret 16. Little Egret 17. Northern Lapwing 18. Ruddy Turnstone 19. Common Black-headed Gull 20. Black-tailed Gull 21. Mew Gull 22. Herring Gull 23. Black Kite 24. Eastern Marsh Harrier 25. Northern Goshawk 26. Common Kingfisher 27. Common Kestrel 28. Merlin 29. Bull-headed Shrike 30. Carrion Crow 31. Large-billed Crow 32. Varied Tit 33. Yellow-bellied Tit 34. Great Tit 35. Eurasian Skylark 36. Brown-eared Bulbul 37. Japanese Bush Warbler 38. Japanese White-eye 39. White-cheeked Starling 40. Dusky Thrush 41. Red-flanked Bluetail 42. Blue Rock Thrush 43. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 44. White Wagtail 45. Buff-bellied Pipit 46. Oriental Greenfinch 47. Black-faced Bunting 48. Common Reed Bunting

Yellow-bellied Tit (female)

Yellow-bellied Tit (pair)

Yellow-bellied Tit (male)

Oriental Greenfinch

Northern Lapwing

Merlin (female)

Great Egret

Grey Heron

Eastern Marsh Harrier

Dusky Thrush

Great Crested Grebe

Red-breasted Merganser

Pelagic Cormorant

Black-necked Grebe

Gadwall

2018-05-05

Birdwatching in Ibaraki Benten (30 April, 2018)

Oriental Greenfinch (male)

Narcissus Flycatcher (male)

2011-03-27

Birdwatching in Matsudo (March 27, 2011)

As I found a Golden-crowned Sparrow has started changing the plumage, I re-visited Matsudo City. There were only less than five birdwatchers when I arrived at 7:15 a.m.. The sparrow was singing with unfamilar call, which reminded me Yellow-breasted Bunting, White-throated Sparrow and Blue-and-Whte Flycatcher, but was different from all.
It was often singing in middle storey of willow tree while it sometimes sang from reedbed. It probably takes another two or three weeks to be full breeding plumage.
When it was feeding on the ground, it sometimes dig on the ground by its legs unlikely buntings.
Taiga (or Red-breasted Flycatcher) was still in the same reedbed. It was agile but much easier than the sparrow to see. So, I enjoyed photographing it for 1 hour after photographing the Golden-crowned Sparrow