Autumn Leaves Hokkaido - Hokkaido Photo Tour

Hokkaido is best known International for birding, and the three species most International photographers are interested in spotting and photographing are the Steller’s sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus,) the Red-crowned cranes Grus japonensis,) and the Hokkaido Fox also known as the Ezo red fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki.)  I love wildlife-birding photograph so much, that I publish articles and newsletter about wildlife all year round, and I spend several months a year dedicated just to birding.  To date I have photographed over half of the world bird species, for a couple of years I slowed down on birding, but I am back, and I am pushing full steam ahead, and I will be visiting other continents to fill my bird watching log book.  Just the other day in Hokkaido we spotted a flock of Shima  Enaga which are mainly spotted in Hokkaido, Japan. But they inhabit the entire Paleatrictic realm. The long-tailed tit is sometimes referred to as the silver-throated tit or silver-throated dasher. The long-tailed tit was first classified as a tit of the Parus group. The Parus has been split from the Aegithalidae and becoming a distinct family containing three sub-group families. Aegithalos (long-tailed tits) are five species birds with a tail.  Psaltriparus (North America Buishtit), monotypic. Psaltriparus (pygmy bushtit), monotypic.  The long-tailed tit is insectivorous throughout the year. The Shima Enaga eat predominantly arthropods and prefer the eggs and astronomical huge moths and butterflies, and sometimes they eat vegetable matter.  Currently, the shima-enaga are especially active feeding, getting ready for winter, and are a none migratory species.