Bird Watching in Japan & Asia

2021-11-27

Birdwatching in Tokachi near Obihiro (November 7-9, 2021)

Tokachi is the vast and fertilized plain and is well known agricultural area for potato, sweet cone, carrot, green soybean, etc.

It is an important passage ground for geese including White-fronted, Bean and less common Cackling and Snow Goose.

My target was photographing a flock of Snow and Cackling Goose. Unfortunately, most of them had already left there and moved to Honshu before I arrived there. However, I was still able to photograph some of the target species.

Observed species during the three days are as below.

Bean Goose (both Taiga and Tundra Bean Goose), White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Cackling Goose, Whooper Swan, Mallard, Spot-billed Duck, Common Teal, Smew, Common Merganser, Red-crowned Crane, Coot, Black-eared Kite, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Hen Harrier, Japanese Buzzard, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Peregrine Falcon, Eurasian Jay, Carrion Crow, Large-billed Crow, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Varied Tit, Coal Tit, Japanese Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Eurasian Nuthatch, White-cheeked Starling, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Buff-bellied Pipit, Oriental Greenfinch, Yellow-throated Bunting

Eurasian Jay

Common Merganser female

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker male

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker female

Eurasian Nuthatch

Cackling Goose

Red-crowned Crane

Snow Goose

Willow Tit

Bean Goose

2021-10-05

Birdwatching in Maioka Koen (October 3, 2021)

Some autumn migrants are seen after a typhoon passed through.

Grey-spotted Flycatcher

Asian Brown Flycatcher

2021-10-03

Birdwatching in Oiso (October 2, 2021)

Oiso is a famous spot where White-bellied Green Pigeon come to drink salt water during summer months. The number is large on July, August and September. However, it drops rapidly in October.

During our stay for 3 hours, we saw 50 in maximum. However, the sky is blue with nice breeze.