Pelagic Cormorant 50
Harlequin 100
Long-tailed Duck 5
Black Scoter 300
Goldeneye 10
Red-breasted Merganser 10
Goosander 40
Black-eared Kite 20
White-tailed Eagle 5
Steller's Sea-Eagle 10
Slaty-backed Gull 50
Glaucous-winged Gull 10
Glaucous Gull 10
Guillemot sp. 1
Spectacled Guillemot 15
URAL OWL 1 ex.
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Carrion Crow 5
Large-billed Crow 10
Eastern Great Tit 5
Marsh Tit 6
Brown-eared Bulbul 2
Nuthatch 2
Dusky Thrush 15
Tree Sparrow 20
Great Spotted Woodpecker at Lodge Furen
Siberian Nuthatch at Lodge Furen
Marsh Tit at Lodge Furen
The road to Nemuro
Driving on ice in Nemuro
Cape Nosappu Lighthouse
that fortunately always provided some shelter from the bitter northeasterly wind!
Cape Nosappu
Drake Harlequin at Cape Nosappu
Adult Steller's Sea-Eagle at Cape Nosappu
Koji Niiya
We met this very knowledgable English-speaking local birder and guide (kniiya@y8.dion.ne.jp) twitching our American White-winged Scoter that we together unfortunately found dead. However, amazingly, he found his own around three weeks later being the third for Japan as the second was found off Choshi in the intervening period. Brilliant! Well done Koji!
A walk into the woods in thick snow
Spot the Ural Owl!
Ural Owl
We weren't even gone for very long...!
