Sep. 16-17, 2017 Aomori – Hokkaido
We on boarded the Silver Ferry (Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen Kaisya,LTD.).
DAY 1 :We departed Aomori (Hachinohe port) at 8:45 am and arrived at Hokkaido (Tomakomai port) at 16:00 pm.
Weather : cloudy, sunny and sometimes rainy
Temperature : around 15℃
Wind speed : around 3 m/s
DAY 2 :We departed Hokkaido (Tomakomai port) at 9:30 am and arrived at Aomori (Hachinohe port) at 18:00 pm.
Weather : cloudy
Temperature : around 17℃
Wind speed : around 7 m/s
Typhoon No.18 had formed in the southwest of Japan.
There was a strong swell, and a southeasterly strong wind.There were more Providence Petrels than we had expected.And fortunately, we were able to observe several Storm-petrels (many of them were Leach’s Storm-petrel).These good fortune seems to be the result of good weather condition (strong swell and strong wind) and timing (migration of Providence Petrels and fledging of Leach’s Storm-petrels)
Bird List
- Black-footed Albatross (10)
- Laysan Albatross (29)
- Short-tailed Albatross (1)
- Providence Petrel (183+)
- Streaked Shearwater ++
- Sooty Shearwater (4)
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (4)
- Leach’s Storm-petrel (8)
- Storm-petrel sp. (White rump) (9)
- Japanese Cormorant
- Cormorant sp.
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red Phalarope
- Black-tailed Gull
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Common Tern
- Tern sp.
- Pomarine Skua
- Carrion Crow
- Japanese White-eye
