Aisatsu

Aisatsu

This blog is for family and friends, to share my feelings and photos with and for myself, to support my fading memory. Readers who have my site translated automatically, please refer to the original if necessary. Especially when it comes to identification. Any comments, anonymous or by email name are always welcome!.

Saturday 3 February 2018

Saga

A couple of weeks ago during a work related weekend visit to Saga we stopped at the shore of Ariaki Sea near Kashima for a few hours

Peregrine Falcon, ハヤブサ  scanning the fields behind the sea wall


majestic!



View from the seawall at low tide



Saunders's Gulls, ズグロカモメ Vulnerable
There were about 25 birds circling the mudflats, with about 10 juveniles staying mostly close to shore













At this tide most ducks were far out, more or less beyond my view
However, a few Shelducks, ツクシガモ  stopped by for a feed





At the far: corner 1 lonesome Far Eastern Curlew, ホウロクシギ



Back to the fields: Eurasian Kestrel, チョウゲンボウ



Some lucky catches for a Great Crested Grebe, カンムリカイツブリ

 


and Great Cormorant, カワウ



Towards the mountains: Buzzard, ノスリ



And then the rain started...  Daurian Redstart, ジョウビタキ  female



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