Hokkaido Photo Tours - Wildlife Photography, More Than Birding

Many photographers and enthusiasts join Hokkaido Photo Tour to take pictures of the amazing birding photo ops that exist all over Japan’s northern island.  And when considering birds such as the snow ballerina the Red-crowned crane or the aggressive raptor The Steller’s Sea Eagle, it is clear that you could spend days even months taking only birding photos.  However, the experience of our lead Japan Photography Workshop Leader convinced us that there is much more to the island than avian visitors.

While leading a recent Hokkaido Photo Tour, our Lead Photo Tour Guide to capture an outcropping of land with a nearly uncountable amount Yezo Deer.  It was such a remarkable discovery that everyone stopped and immortalized the herd into their personal photo galleries.  As an amateur historian, our lead photography guide knows that the now relatively abundant Yezo Deer were once dangerously close to extinction.  Once Hokkaido started receiving an influx of Japanese from the main island, the deer’s population shrunk to near extinction levels.  Venison canning between two major hub cities in Hokkaido meant the deer were perpetually overheated, but on two different occasions the deer were given protected status which allowed them to return to numbers that make them available as photo ops in several different parts of Hokkaido, and the experience of your Japan Dreamscapes (JDS) Photo Tour Leader means that you will access to the locations with the highest probabilities of seeing the deer.