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

南部の畑でシマアカモズ、サシバ、ケリなど

糸満あたりの畑を回っているとシマアカモズがいました。枝先に止まり、バッタなどを捕まえているようです。

越冬サシバは、2月末ごろから繁殖のため本土に向かう小さな群れを見るようになりましたが、まだまだのんびりと畑で餌などをとっている個体もいます。

北名城の畑には、ケリが1羽いました。沖縄ではケリを見る機会は少ないです。今冬は、これ以外に金武で1羽見ただけです。

セッカは、畑の上を飛び回りながら縄張りを主張しているようです。こちらも間も無く巣作りに入ります。

Isabelline Shrike

A male Brown Shrike transitioning from first-winter to first-summer plumage.

Isabelline Shrike

It regurgitated a pellet.

Grey-faced Buzzard

Grey-faced Buzzards in farmland have little wariness of people; if you shoot from inside a car, they won't fly off.

Grey-faced Buzzard

A male Grey-faced Buzzard. It spotted prey and dropped to the ground, but seemed to lose it in the grass and spent a while walking around searching.

Grey-faced Buzzard

A female Grey-faced Buzzard.

Grey-headed Lapwing

Grey-headed Lapwing, first-winter plumage. The eye colour is dark and dull compared to the vivid red of adults.

Grey-headed Lapwing

Will the black breast-band seen on adults appear from here on?

Zitting Cisticola

A male Zitting Cisticola. It was flying back and forth over the fields, trading territorial calls with a neighbouring male.

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