James Lowen 

Best landscape?  Sea-ice stretching to the horizon, with a Red Fox searching for something to eat.

Best birder's bird? Blakiston's Fish Owl.

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18 March 2016  Japan: highlights

My trip to Japan was so good, that I'm going to consolidate the best bits into and facilitate navigation from a single page. And then leave it as a pseudo-sticky on the homepage of my website until you all get bored of it...

Let's start with some links to my various web pages:

• Whilst actually in Japan, I only posted once - with a few images of cranes from our first day on Kyushu
  
• For a blog about our meanderings through Kyushu, with thousands of cranes and some decent forest birds,click here. For more photos of those cranes, click through to my photographic website.
  
• I split my musings on Hokkaido into three. First up were Red-crowned Cranes and Blakiston's Fish Owls. For the blog, click here, and for image-rich galleries click here for Red-crowned Cranes and here for Blakiston's Fish Owl.
  
• The bulk of Hokkaido wildlife featured in a blog here, with dedicated photo-galleries on waterbirds, mammals, small birds, scenery and, dare I say it, gulls can each accessed by clicking on the relevant links.
  
• I treated eagles to a blog and a photo-gallery of their own. For goodness sake.
  

Wildlife

Best mammal? Japanese sable: what a corker.

Most photo-savvy bird? Steller's Sea Eagle. Massive, striking, exciting.

Best birder's bird?Blakiston's Fish Owl. Particularly for showing by day.

Wildlife

Best bird overall? Red-crowned Crane. For poise and purpose.

Now for the best of the best. To see my consolidated photographic highlights, click here for a dedicated 'best of' gallery. This takes you to the gallery represented by the top-left image on the screen-grab above.