2020-12-19

Birdwatching in Maioka Koen (19 December 2020)

 

Varied Tit

Varied Tit

Varied Tit



Oriental Turtle Dove


Mallard (female)

Great Tit (male)

Daurian Redstart (Female)

Daurian Redstart (Female)

Daurian Redstart (Female)

Common Kingfisher (male)

Black-faced Bunting (female)

Black-faced Bunting (male)

2020-12-18

Birdwatching in Maioka Koen (17 December 2020)

 A very cold day.  The park was bit quiet, though some winter migrants finally arrived such as Pale Thrush.


Common Kingfisher male

Common Kingfisher male

Common Kingfisher male

Common Kingfisher male

Common Kingfisher male

Common Kingfisher male

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker

Common Kingfisher


Black-faced Bunting female

Black-faced Bunting female

Bull-headed Shrike female

Japanese White-eye

Chinese Hwamei

Hawfinch

Varied Tit

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 (female)

Yellow-bellied Tit (pair)

Yellow-bellied Tit (male)

Yellow-bellied Tit (male)

Oriental Greenfinch

Northern Lapwing

Merlin (female)

Great Egret

Great Egret

Grey Heron 

Eastern Marsh Harrier

Eastern Marsh Harrier

Dusky Thrush

Dusky Thrush

Great Crested Grebe

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser


Red-breasted Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Pelagic Cormorant

Black-necked Grebe

Gadwall