Feb 10-11, 2018 Aomori—Hokkaido
We onboarded 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 with occasional rainy and snowy
Temperature : around 1~5℃
Wind speed : around 5-10 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 and then snowy
Temperature : around -2~2℃
Wind speed : around 2-10 m/s
The Auks’s season came in!
Winters in North Japan are very cold, but seabirds are very powerful!
Bird List
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Greater Scaup
- Harlequin Duck
- Black Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Common Goldeneye
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-necked Grebe
- Great Crested Grebe
- Loon sp. (1)
- Laysan Albatross (1)
- Northern Fulmar (38)
- Great Cormorant
- Japanese Cormorant
- Red Phalarope (1)
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-tailed Gull
- Mew Gull
- Glaucous Gull
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Pomarine Skua (1)
- Brunnich’s Guillemot (174)
- Ancient Murrelet (339)
- Parakeet Auklet (1)
- Least Auklet (24)
- Crested Auklet (405)
- Rhinoceros Auklet (25)
- White-tailed Eagle
- Peregrine Falcon
- Carrion Crow
Others
- Northern Fur Seal
- Dall’s Porpoise
- Whale sp.
