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| Eurasian Sparrowhawk Fukushimagata, Niigata, Japan November 30, 2014 |
Here are some of the results from my walk around Fukushimagata last Sunday. I've been thinking of buying a Nikon D7100 as my full-frame D800 is rarely close enough for the wetlands. Most of these pics are heavily cropped and I've already filled up my 2 terabyte computer hard-drive with photo files in just two years. I usually take RAW files as well but just went down the j-peg path with these...but I'm disappointed with the quality.
Apart from the photos it was a very warm day for that time of the year and birds of all kinds were a plenty.
Today is snowing heavily with a maximum forecast of 2 degrees Celsius so I'm inside doing my blog!
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| Japanese Green Pheasant I disturbed 3 pheasants in the long grass under foot...first, one, then I took another step and two more burst out over the water....within two seconds the goshawk below appeared hot on their tails, just failing as they made it to the reeds on the other side of the water. |
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| Northern Goshawk |
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| Waterfowl at Fukushimagata |
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| At first, I thought this largish raptor was a goshawk. It attacked the large resident peregrine just before I got this shot but now I realise it's a sparrowhawk. Sparrowhawks are not so common in Niigata. |
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| Northern Goshawk Adult goshawks are not so easy to get close to, but I saw at least three different ones within a couple of hours. |
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| Eastern Marsh Harrier lots of harriers too |
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| Eastern Marsh Harrier scanning over the water for unaware quary |
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| Bean Goose |
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| Mallard Male |