Bird Watching in Japan & Asia: Yellow-bellied Tit

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2021-01-04

Birdwatching in Choshi and Natsume-no-Seki (3 January 2021)

We spent about two hours to find Yellow-bellied Tits. However, they were keeping high up in dense pine trees. So, my photos are not better than the last time's shots.

There are small number of gulls and grebes. Even Glaucous-winged and Glaucous Gulls were absent.

In Natsume-no-seki, we were able to see about 60-70 of Baikal Teals among a few hundreds of Mallard and Northern Pintail.

Observed species are as below.

1. Bewick's Swan 2. Falcated Teal 3. Eurasian Wigeon 4. Mallard 5. Eastern Spot-billed Duck 6. Northern Shoveler 7. Northern Pintail 8. Baikal Teal 9. Common Teal 10. Common Pochard 11. Tufted Duck 12. Greater Scaup 13. Little Grebe 14. Great Crested Grebe 15. Black-necked Grebe 16. Grey Heron 17. Great Cormorant 18. Temminck's Cormorant 19. Black-eared Kite 20. Eurasian Coot 21. Common Black-headed Gull 22. Herring Gull 23. Slaty-backed Gull 24. Mongolian Gull 25. Oriental Turtle-Dove 26. Common Kingfisher 27. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 28. Bull-headed Shrike 29. Carrion Crow 30. Large-billed Crow 31. Varied Tit 32. Yellow-bellied Tit 2 33. Japanese Tit 34. Brown-eared Bulbul 35. Japanese Bush Warbler 36. Long-tailed Tit 37. Japanese White-eye 38. White-cheeked Starling 39. Pale Thrush 40. Dusky Thrush 41. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 42. White Wagtail 43. Olive-backed Pipit 44. Brambling 45. Oriental Greenfinch 46. Eurasian Siskin 47. Black-faced Bunting

Yellow-legged Gull

Herring Gull (?)

Yellow-bellied Tit (female)

Yellow-bellied Tit (male)

Mallard (male)

Baikal Teal

Bewick's Swan

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