 |
 |
 |
 |
  We left Bayside Hotel Azur Takeshiba 5 minutes later and our first stop will be at the Sanbanze Seaside Park where we will try to catch some waders when the high tide goes back out in Tokyo Bay leaving mudflats behind for the birds to look for food at. 船橋市--ふなばし三番瀬海浜公園 - Sanbanze Seaside Park
 Sanbanze Seaside Park
A nice place and you can experience different habitat during your visit. Waders on the mudflats. Walk on the road (closed for traffic) between the park and the beach. There are trees with birds and at the west side of the beach there are a huge area with reeds between the beach and the walk/ bike path. I step out of the car and I spot a few White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリs but no pictures. We walk in to the park towards the beach. We could see some bird watchers when we came down to the beach. The tide was just turning going back out and we could see some waders on the mud flats. There was a Grey Heron sitting on one of the pools. About 100 Great Cormorants chasing fish further down the beach and a few hundred Dunlings on the beach mixed with a few Grey Plovers.  Bird watchers on the beach
I´m mostly interested in birds I can come close to so I went ip to check out the lawn. I kept my eye out for Starlings and I spotted a few more White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ and I try to take a picture. Not so good, but as it is the first time I see the bird I keep the picture. I spotted e few Eurasian Tree Sparrows and another finch looking bird. I ask my guide and he tells me that it is a Greenfinch. Don´t look much like the Greenfinch I´m used to, but this was an Oriental Greenfinch. DARN! The pictures wasn´t really any good.  Oriental Greenfinch
  Beach - Tree line - walk / bike path
I was back in the beach and I spotted a group of Black-headed Gulls and I thought never mind, but I spotted a different gull in the group and I tried to walk up on them. Kamchatka gull, or as we know it, Common Gull. Kamchatka gull is a subspecies: L. c. kamtschatschensis – Bonaparte, 1857; syn. L. kamtschatschensis – Kamchatka gull. Found in northeastern Asia. Large; mantle medium-dark grey; wingtips with extensive black; iris pale. Mass 394–586 g    One thing is for sure, Kamchatka gull sounds more exciting than Common Gull. We leave the beach and we walk along the bike/ walk path. I see a Dusky Thrush and I sneak up on the bird to get a picture when I guy pass us on a bike. I point towards the back of the dyke to let him know that we´re sneaking up on a bird and we need to be quiet. I waves at me as he become jolly. He start to ring is bell and the bird takes off. He brings out food and he start to feed the cats behind the dyke. I had not seen the cats and he thought I was signalling to him that there were cats. He was obviously feeding the cats in the area. Me and my guide were, well, what to say? We continuing towards the dead end chasing a group of Common Reed Buntings, but no pictures as the birds were moving all the times or hiding in the reeds. Walking back and I spotted a Japanese White-eye and I also managed to get a sound recording of the bird. We walk towards the other end on the park and we pass a Large-billed Crow.  A group of Great Cormorants feeding
 We can see Mount Fuji
  Japanese White-eye
 Japanese White-eye
Listen to the Japanese White-eye
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
We left the area and we walked across a field and I tried to take some pictures of the White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ when I spotted a wagtail. A White Wagtail but it looked different. Turned out to be a Black backed wagtail, the Motacilla alba lugens but none of the pictures were good enough to make it to my list of observed birds.  Black Backed Wagtail / ハクセキレイ
 White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ
 White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ
 White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ
Walking over the parking lot on the way back to the car and I spotted a few White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリs and I went to take some pictures. Now I´m happy with the White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ and I can concentrate on other birds. We left Sanbanze Seaside Park bound for Yatsu Tidal Flat and we stopped at 7 Eleven to buy some picnic lunch. My eBird checklist from Sanbanze Seaside Park can be downloaded HERE Or online on ebird´s web page, click HERE 習志野市--谷津干潟 - Narashino--Yatsu Tidal Flat
 Yatsu Tidal Flat - Click HERE for bigger picture
We arrive to Yatsu Tidal Flat and I have water and mango juice from 7 Eleven + my picnic lunch. We get out of the car and there are not so many birds. A couple of Eurasian Coots in front of us. They don´t bother with us as we´re 4 meter above the water level looking down on the tidal flats. Well, it was like walking along a jetty and the bird didn´t seem to bother about us.   Yatsu Tidal Flat
 Yatsu Tidal Flat
 Yatsu Tidal Flat
 Eastern Spot-billed Duck
  Common Sandpiper / イソシギ
 Common Sandpiper / イソシギ
 Common Sandpiper / イソシギ
We are ready with the birds on the tidal flats so we start walking to the visitor centre and the bird hide. There are some birds on the pond at the bird hide. We see a Goshawk flying by chased by a crow several times. We hear a Japanese Tit when we leave the hide and I manage to get a recording, but no pictures. Walking through the “forest” (5 minutes) and we´re on the walk path along the tidal flats. But the reeds cover the water and the birds so we turn around and start walking back to the car.  Oriental Turtle Dove or Rufous Turtle Dove
 Visitor Centre
 Visitor Centre
 Bird hide at the pond
 Great Egret from the hide
 Northern Shoveler from the hide
 Eurasian/Green-winged Teal from the bird hide
Listen to the Japanese tit / シジュウカラ
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
 Listen to the Japanese tit / シジュウカラ
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
 Walking through the “forest”
 We are through the “forest”
 Walking along Yatsu Tidal Flat
  Eurasian/Green-winged Teal from the bird hide
 Grey Heron from the bird hide
 Time for our picnic lunch
I manage to get a picture of the Japanese Tit on the way back through the “forest” We have our picnic lunch when we´re back at the car. We´re getting stuck for more than an hour as we discover many birds on the tidal flats. Hundreds of Dunlins and Grey Plovers. But we discover one rarity, the Great Knot. I make a video of two Little Ringed Plovers.  Little Ringed Plover
 White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ feeding on the mudflats
 Dunlins and Grey Plovers on the mud flats
We leave the Yatsu Tidal Flats behind and we´re happy with the visit. Of course, some of the birds did not make it to my list of observed birds as the pictures were substandard. But it is a few more years before I die so no need to finish all the birds in one day. Next stop Kasai Rinkai Park. My eBird checklist from Yatsu Tidal Flat can be downloaded HERE Or online on ebird´s web page, click HERE 江戸川区--葛西臨海公園・葛西海浜公園
Edogawa Ward--Kasai Rinkai Park, Tokyo We find a parking place at Kasai Rinkai Park and it looks to be a lot of people in the park today. Turned out that it is some kind of school holiday. We walked across a small pond with several of the Eastern Spot-billed Duck and I could get some pictures. The ducks were behind grass back at the Yatsu Tidal Flats so I could get some pictures with a clear view of the bird.   Eastern Spot-billed Duck
 Eastern Spot-billed Duck
 White-cheeked Starling / ムクドリ feeding on a field
 Cherry trees
 Japanese tit / シジュウカラ
 Japanese tit / シジュウカラ
 Japanese tit / シジュウカラ
 Azur Winged Magpie
Listen to the Azur Winged Magpie
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
We spot the beautiful Azur-winged Magpie, impossible to get any pictures of the bird. But I managed to make a sound recording. We walk through the park and we reach the waterfront. Strong winds and the sun was against us so no need to waste any time here. I tried my luck with a Little Egret but the pictures was not any good against the sun. We went back to the park trying to get a picture of the Azur Winged Magpie. No luck with the pictures, but I spotted a Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker/ コゲラ while chasing after the Azur Winged Magpies. But again, no luck with the pictures.  At the water front
 Breeding plumage: Long nape-, back-plumes
 Little Egret / コサギ
Breeding plumage: Long nape-, back-, breast-plumes
 Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker/ コゲラ
 Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker/ コゲラ
The pictures of the Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker/ コゲラ is not good enough for the bird to make it to my list of observed birds. We had spent the time looking for birds in the western part of the park. Now we want to walk to the bird sanctuary on the east side of the park. There are birds all over the park but there are some hides at the bird sanctuary.  Map
Map from picsbud.com
 We reach the bird sanctuary
 We reach the bird sanctuary
 Bird hide at the bird sanctuary
By the time we reached the bird sanctuary it started to blow, very strong winds and we decided to go back. Lucky with the wind, the Egrets could hardly fly and I got a few pictures of a Little Egret. And I got to see a Little Egret with red face and red feet. First time for me ever, otherwise I see them with blue face  Little Egret / コサギ in breeding uniform
 Little Egret / コサギ in breeding uniform
  Female Tufted Duck
 Walking back to the car...
 ...stopping at the hides on the way
  Grey Heron / アオサギ
We walk back towards the car and we pass a pond with ducks and I give it a try with the camera. Can´t say that I was very lucky. The walk way back to the parking lot was in lee so no wind and it was nice walking dawn the walk path. In a ZIG ZAG pattern and there was bird hides we stopped at. Well, we spotted a Snipe but no picture. A Grey Heron posed for us and I managed to get a few pictures from the hide. My eBird checklist from Kasai Rinkai Park, Tokyo can be downloaded HERE Or online on ebird´s web page, click HERE I was very happy with my day, we have had an excellent tour of Tokyo and I was very happy with my Guide that run Japan-Birding. So, we´re off to Miyagase Lake Park to look for birds. Click HERE to find out if we find any birds. 
    
  You are visitor no.
To www.aladdin.st since December 2005
Visitors from different countries since 26th of September 2011
|
Marunong ka mag-tagalog? Walang problema! Magpunta sa kabilang pahina pindutin ang “NEXT” button sa itaas
Faites vous parlez le français? Pas de problème! Pour arriver à la page suivante faites s'il vous plaît un déclic le bouton “Next” ci-dessus!
Haga usted dice el español? No hay problema! Ver la siguiente página sólo hacer clic el botón “Next” encima!
Farla parla l'italiano? Non problemi! Per vedere la prossima pagina lo scatto per favore giusto Il bottone “Next” sopra
Sprechen sie Deutsch! Kein problem! Wenn Sie die folgende Seite sehen wollen gerade klicken der Knopf “Next” oben!
คุณพูดภาษาไทยได้ไหม ไม่มีปัญหา ถ้าคุณต้องการไปหน้าถัดไป ให้กดปุ่ม “Next” ข้างบนนี้
Вы говорите по-русски? Просто нажмите синюю кнопку "Next" с левой стороны и Вы моментально переместитесь на следующую страницу!
E ni Svenskar och inte förstår Engelska så ska ni skämmas. J och Björn, med det menar jag inte att alla mina stavfel ska ältas varje gång vi träffas.
Well, the flag of Skåne, just a BONUS flag.
 |
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
||||