The north edge ofTokyo Bay (140º  E, 35º 40' N):  Funabashi Keihin Koen and
Yatsuhigata mudflats.



An unfortunate anniversary today, but I did go birding.  The field is a
quiet place to commemorate such an atrocity.  It is later in migration, and
we saw a few different species, if not so many, but nothing extraordinary
for this place and time:



Species (estimated numbers)



Black-winged Stilt (6)

Kentish Plover (30)

Lesser Sand Plover (50)

Pacific Golden Plover (1)

Grey Plover (50)

Great Knot (5)

Red Knot (2)

Sanderling (50)

Red-necked Stint (70)

Dunlin (20)

Black-tailed Godwit (4)

Bar-tailed Godwit (8)

Common Greenshank (2)

Terek Sandpiper (4)

Common Sandpiper (3)

Grey-tailed Tattler (11)

Ruddy Turnstone (20)





Charles Harper

Yokohama