Linda and I just returned from a trip to #Japan, a private tour with #MarkBrazil and some friends. In #Hokkaido, we both saw our 5000th world bird. Mine was a typical brown bird that I seem to have for milestones: several Eurasian Woodcocks displaying overhead while we waited for the Blakiston's Fish Owl to show up. (That would have been a spectacular bird for a milestone, and my companions suggested I fudge the numbers. I prefer my brown nondescripts.)
Linda hit 5000 on a stunning view of a singing male Siberian Rubythroat that used a nearby post as a perch for the display.
I have posted some photos at https://goo.gl/photos/EyhEvUGDRXzuZrf57, including the owl and rubythroat.
Coincidentally, Mark Brazil showed me my 4000th world bird on a trip to India a few years ago, a delightfully nondescript Blyth's Reed Warbler.
Comments are welcome.
Linda hit 5000 on a stunning view of a singing male Siberian Rubythroat that used a nearby post as a perch for the display.
I have posted some photos at https://goo.gl/photos/EyhEvUGDRXzuZrf57, including the owl and rubythroat.
Coincidentally, Mark Brazil showed me my 4000th world bird on a trip to India a few years ago, a delightfully nondescript Blyth's Reed Warbler.
Comments are welcome.
