Sunday 27 April 2008

27th April 2008 Hakodate

Awoke to rainy and misty conditions at dawn finding a few migrant passerines on deck. Sailed into Hakodate and met Stuart Price at 8am who kindly took us to the Onuma Lake area despite the rain!

Red-throated Diver 1
Little Grebe 4
Great Crested Grebe 1
Red-necked Grebe 1
Short-tailed Shearwater c.10,000
Japanese Cormorant 70
Pelagic Cormorant 5
Grey Heron 2
Eurasian Wigeon 300
Teal 15
Mallard 6
Spot-billed Duck 10
Shoveler 2
Tufted Duck 5
Scaup 50
Red-breasted Merganser 25
Goosander 6
Osprey 1
Black-eared Kite 10
Buzzard 1
Peregrine 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Pomarine Skua 1
Black-headed Gull 100
Black-tailed Gull 100
Kamchatka Gull 75
Vega Gull 5
Slaty-backed Gull 15
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Glaucous Gull 5
Kittiwake 4
Rhinoceros Auklet 2
Feral Pigeon 6
Oriental Turtle Dove 6
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 1
Asian House Martin 20
Grey Wagtail 1
Black-backed Wagtail 2
Japanese Wagtail 1
Brown-eared Bulbul 10
Japanese Grey Thrush 1 male
Dusky Thrush 12
Asian Stubtail 1 ex. on deck!
Japanese Bush Warbler h
Narcissus Flycatcher 1 female dead on deck
Marsh Tit 8
Varied Tit 1
Great Tit 4
Nuthatch 2
Bull-headed Shrike 1
Carrion Crow 5
Large-billed Crow 2
White-cheeked Starling 6
Tree Sparrow 10
Russet Sparrow 2
Oriental Greenfinch 6
Black-faced Bunting 8




Siberian Nuthatch at Onuma Lake

Marsh Tit at Onuma Lake

 Eastern Great Tit at Onuma Lake



Kamchatka Gull at Hakodate

Kamchatka and Black-tailed Gulls at Hakodate



Black-tailed Gulls at Hakodate


 Short-tailed Shearwaters off Hakodate