A birdwatching trip to Japan in winter February to March, stopping in Tokyo, Karuizawa and Kaga on Honshu, Arasaki and Miike on Kyushu and Kushiro, Nemuro, Rausu and Nakashibetsu in Hokkaido, ending with an overnight ferry trip from Tokyo to the Izu Islands for albatrosses.
There are some more pictures in some blog posts and many more pictures on my OneDrive.
Falcated Duck in the moat of the imperial palace
Daurian Redstart
Bull-headed Shrike
Japanese Serow
Pallas’s Rosefinch
Pallas’s Rosefinch
Good handwashing technique
There is a bit of snow, though.
Japanese Waxwing
Black-tailed Gull
Hooded Cranes at dawn
Hooded Crane
A White-naped Crane squares up to a Common Crane in the crowd of Hooded Cranes
Japanese Murrelet
Long-tailed Duck
Eurasian Bullfinch – the asian subspecies have grey breasts
At 0410 in the morning the Blakiston’s Fish Owl arrived.
Ural Owl
Red-crowned Crane
Ancient Murrelet
Black Scoter
Pounce for the cameras.
White-tailed Eagle
Steller’s Sea Eagle
The Steller’s Sea Eagle may be slower, but it’sfar more powerful in an arm wrestle.
Blakiston’s Fish Owl
Sable
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Red-crowned Crane
Pomarine Skua
Black-footed Albatross
Laysan Albatross
Short-tailed Albatross
Humpback Whale