Bird Watching in Japan & Asia

2021-01-17

Birdwatching in Oike-Koen (January 16, 2021)

There are at least two White's Thrush in the park in this winter. Grey Buntings are secretive as usual though I was able to manage to get record shots. Ring-necked Duck has disappeared while number of Tufted Ducks are less than December.

White's Thrush

Tufted Duck (male)

Red-flanked Bluetail (male)

Red-flanked Bluetail (female)

Pale Thrush (immature)

Long-tailed Tit

Grey Bunting (female)

Grey Bunting (immature male)

Grey Bunting (male)

Great Tit

Dusky Thrush

Brown-eared Bulbul

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.