Friday 25 April 2008

25th April 2008 Tokyo Bay area

Sailed into Tokyo Bay and disembarked at 8.30am being met by Chris Cook who kindly drove us around the Tokyo area until returning to the MS Statendam at 7pm.

Little Grebe 1
Great Crested Grebe 1
Cormorant 30
Little Egret 4
Great Egret 2
Grey Heron 2
Eurasian Wigeon 4
Teal 6
Mallard 3
Spot-billed Duck 40
Shoveler 10
Tufted Duck 1
Scaup 6
Black-eared Kite 8
Pacific Golden Plover 75
Grey Plover 6
Red-necked Stint 1
Dunlin c.2,000
Snipe 2
Bar-tailed Godwit c.100
Whimbrel 8
Common Sandpiper 2
Grey-tailed Tattler 2
Turnstone 15
Black-headed Gull 100
Kamchatka Gull 25
Vega Gull 6
Slaty-backed Gull 2
Little Tern 10
Feral Pigeon 6
Oriental Turtle Dove 3
Short-eared Owl 1
Japanese Skylark 20
Swallow 15
Black-backed Wagtail 1
Brown-eared Bulbul 2
Dusky Thrush 20
Japanese Bush Warbler h
Fan-tailed Warbler 12
Oriental Great Reed Warbler 3h
Japanese Marsh Warbler 3 ex. display flighting
Bull-headed Shrike 4
Jay 1
Magpie 1
Large-billed Crow 10
White-cheeked Starling 4
Tree Sparrow 15
Oriental Greenfinch 5
Japanese Reed Bunting 5 males singing ex.
Black-faced Bunting 3

Black-headed and Kamchatka Gulls in Tokyo Bay

 First-winter Kamchatka Gull in Tokyo Bay

 Adult Kamchatka Gull in Tokyo Bay

Reedbed in Tokyo Bay area

Male Japanese Reed Bunting in Tokyo Bay area

Steppe Whimbrel and Pacific Golden Plovers in the Tokyo area

Steppe Whimbrel in the Tokyo area


Pacific Golden Plovers in the Tokyo area






 Pacific Golden Plovers in the Tokyo Bay area


Black-faced Bunting in the Tokyo Bay area


 Bull-headed Shrike near Tokyo