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)

Mallard (male)

Baikal Teal

Baikal Teal

Bewick's Swan




2021-01-02

Birdwatching in Maioka Koen (2 January, 2021)

 Few birds in this winter in the park.  Although Wryneck, Woodcock, Grey Bunting and Eastern Water Rails are all recorded in the park, all of them are rather difficult to see this winter.


Bull-headed Shrike female

Bull-headed Shrike female

Bull-headed Shrike female

Daurian Redstart male

Daurian Redstart male

Daurian Redstart male

Japanese White-eye

Japanese White-eye

Japanese White-eye

Great Tit

Japanese Bush Warbler

Japanese Bush Warbler


2021-01-01

Birdwatching in Oike-Koen (31 December 2020)

Probably the coldest day in this winter season.  Birds started to be active after 8:00 AM when sun lights reached into forest.  Although the last day of 2020, there are hundreds of people including 30-40 bird watchers, I was still able to take some good birds' photos, including Eurasian Jay, Red-flanked Bluetail and Siskin.

According to a local birder, there is a Eurasian Woodcock and Wryneck in this winter.  I will be back here probably next weekend.

Black-faced Bunting male

Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Common Kingfisher male

Common Kingfisher male

Daurian Redstart male

Daurian Redstart male

Daurian Redstart male

Daurian Redstart male

Daurian Redstart male

Eurasian Jay

Eurasian Jay

Hawfinch male

Japanese White-eye

Long-tailed Tit

Long-tailed Tit

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Red-flanked Bluetail male

Ring-necked Duck female

Ring-necked Duck female

Ring-necked Duck female

Siskin male

Siskin male

Tufted Duck male

Varied Tit

Varied Tit

Varied Tit