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| I guess this is a female Narcissus Flycatcher Junsai-ike, Niigata, Japan May 3, 2014 |
Don’t let these beautiful birds fool you, I’ve been rather miserable for the last week. We had a nice start to the four day Golden Week holidays last Saturday morning, arriving at Junsai-ike before 8:30am. It was nice sitting beneath the blooming trees but most of these photographs were taken in about a 20 minute period just after 1:30pm when I could see small insects coming out of the trees and bringing the birds.
We went to a nice restaurant that evening and my nose began to run.
I don’t remember the two middle days of the holidays but I did lots of sneezing and couldn’t sleep well for a blocked nose.
Tuesday was the last day of the holidays so we went back to Junsai-ike for more but I got only a single shot of the Blue-and-white Flycatcher sitting on a small waterfall just 5 minutes after we arrived - the final picture in this set, which I have framed for you.
We sat, walked and watched again to about 1:30, but no more birds appeared. In the meantime my cold was becoming unbearable with sneezing and shivers and running nose. I took off my glasses and gasped to see them coated in yellow, sticky, dusty, pollen. Time to call the holidays to an end. I realised, it wasn't a cold.
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| Blue-and-white Flycatcher female |
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| Blue-and-white Flycatcher male |
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| Narcissus Flycatcher male |
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| Eastern Crowned Leaf-Warbler |
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| Blue-and-white Flycatcher male May 6, 2014 |
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| Black-faced Bunting May 6, 2014 |
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| "Oruri" - "The Colour Earth" Junsai-ike, May 6, 2014 |
10 comments:
phew Russell, those are incredible birds; such vivid colour; what a wonderful time of photographing them 'cepting for your allergies
Beautiful images of some stunning little birds here Russell. You did great in the short time you had! Bad luck with the allergy though. Thanks for sharing.
It looked like it worked out pretty well for you in the end. Wonderful images, Russell.
Worth the hayfever for those Narc shots Russell............
Thanks for your comments, everyone. Gee, my heads feeling clearer already...better prep the camera for tomorrow!
Brill shots of the Narcissus Flycatcher Russell. Bad luck with the allergy though, hope you're feeling better by now.
Brilliant images Russell, my favourite is the Blue-white Flycatcher, it is fabulous.
Great Flycatcher images Russell.
These pictures are nothing to be sneezed at!
(Sorry)
Great pictures.
Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
Thanks for the comments everyone. Stewart M, I forgive you:) Achoo!
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