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Please use the options below to view photos from specific places or of particular creatures. Alternatively, scroll though the pictures using the arrows at the bottom of the page.
Our 2009 Japan summer tour was once again great fun, with just about all of the hoped for specialities showing very well, including the stunning Fairy Pitta, one of our favourites. The following pictures are effectively a photo-diary of the tour (Pete Morris)
We began close to Narita (Tokyo) where the rich reedbeds are home to Japanese Reed Bunting (Pete Morris)
... and the rare Japanese Marsh Warbler (Pete Morris)
Moving on to Karuizawa (by bullet train!) we visited some abandoned paddyfields where we found Chestnut-eared Bunting (Pete Morris)
... some very obliging Japanese (or Latham's) Snipe (Pete Morris)
... and the superb endemic Green Pheasant (Pete Morris)
Nearby we found our first Ural Owl, a species that remarkably kept finding us during the tour! (Pete Morris)
The forests of Karuizawa revealed their best kept secret, the often elusive Copper Pheasant, a species that unusually we saw several times during the tour! (Pete Morris)
Other goodies here included the sweetly singing Blue-and-white Flycatcher (Pete Morris)
... the amazingly colourful Narcissus Flycatcher (Pete Morris)