A daily journal.
Mainly introducing wild birds of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, through photos.

造成地でホシムクドリ、マミジロタヒバリなど

造成地にホシムクドリ10羽ほどの群れがムクドリに混じっていました。マミジロタヒバリは2羽。ムナグロは数十羽。チョウゲンボウやサシバが飛ぶたびにムナグロは右往左往してた。

野良猫も何頭かいて、造成地の草むらをウロウロ。渡り鳥の休憩場所になっているので影響が心配ですねー。

Common Starling

Common Starling adult.

Common Starling

Pacific Golden Plover and Common Starling. A very Okinawan scene.

Common Starling

Are Common Starlings with grey irises juveniles?

Red-throated Pipit

Buff-bellied Pipit on guard against a stray cat.

Red-throated Pipit

Two Buff-bellied Pipits have been staying in the same spot for about three days. Last year, two Buff-bellied Pipits also wintered in the same location.

Red-throated Pipit

Buff-bellied Pipits come to Okinawa Island as winter visitors in smaller numbers compared to Ishigaki Island and elsewhere.

Common Kestrel

Common Kestrel. It was disturbing the Pacific Golden Plovers on a development site.

Common Kestrel

The kestrel's prey was a large grasshopper, apparently a Formosan rice grasshopper.

Categories: 野鳥