Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3
Jay 3
Large-billed Crow 2
Eastern Great Tit c.25
Varied Tit 2
Willow Tit 5
Long-tailed Tit 2
Wren 2
Nuthatch 2
Pale Thrush 1
Dusky Thrush 15
Red-flanked Bluetail 5 ex. (2 males)
Daurian Redstart 1 female
Brown Dipper 8
White Wagtail 1
Oiental Greenfinch 5
Japanese Grosbeak 12 ex.
Meadow Bunting 1
Kose Rindo
After another evening blizzard we again tried the upper Kose Rindo
Dam in Yacho-no-mori
Despite the snowy conditions a pair of Brown Dipper were seen nestbuilding at the dam
DC again searching for Copper Pheasant in Yacho-no-mori
Nice reflections but little else to be seen at the Yacho-no-mori pond
The bird garden at Shobitu Onsen
Eastern Great Tit and Oriental Greenfinches at Shobitu Onsen
Squirrel at Shobitu Onsen
Eastern Great Tits at Shobitu Onsen
Japanese Varied Tit at Shobitu Onsen
The form on Honshu is the nominate P.v. varius that is the geographically most widespread occuring from northeast China, Korea, the Kurils and Japan.
Japanese Grosbeaks at Shobitu Onsen
Pale Thrush at Shobitu Onsen
In East Asia a migrant that's breeding and wintering ranges both overlap with those of Pallas's Leaf Warbler. Will it ever be prone to westward vagrancy...
Wren at Shobitu Onsen
Red-flanked Bluetail at Shobitu Onsen
The active volcano Mt. Asama dominating the Karuizawa sunset
