Bird Watching in Japan & Asia

2021-01-11

Birdwatching in Shin-Urayasu (10 January, 2021)

Although Long-tailed Duck has been still staying, he stayed very far away from the coast. Due to low tide, we missed most of sea birds, which may be seen there including Slavonian and Red-necked Grebe, Lesser Scaup and Common Golden-eye. Instead of them, we saw a non-breeding plumage of Little Stint.

Bird list is as below.

Black-necked Grebe, Great Cormorant, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Greater Scaup, Siberian Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser, Peregrine Falcon (immature), Eurasian Coot, Kentish Plover, Little Stint, Red-necked Stint, Dunlin, Herring Gull, White Wagtail, Brown-eared Bulbul, Daurian Redstart, Blue Rock Thrush, Japanese White-eye, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Carrion Crow, Large-billed Crow

Dunlin

Greater Scaup

Kentish Plover

Little Stint

Red-breasted Merganser (female)

Siberian Scoter (male)

2021-01-10

Birdwatching in Shin-Yokohama Koen (9 January, 2021)

A famous pond where Smew visits every winter. They are generally shy and wary. So they kept to stay in the other side of the pond where people cannot approach.

Smew (male)

Smew ( a pair)

Common Kestrel (female)

Smew (a pair)

Smew (female)

Smew (immature male)

Smew (male)

Bull-headed Shrike (male)

Smew (male)

Smew (immature male)

Common Kestrel (female)

Bull-headed Shrike (male)

Common Kestrel (female)

Bull-headed Shrike (male)

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

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.