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

ジャワアカガシラサギ、リュウキュウヨシゴイ、ズグロミゾゴイなど石垣島のサギたち

現在、ジャワアカガシラサギ、リュウキュウヨシゴイ、ズグロミゾゴイ、ムラサキサギといかにも石垣島らしいサギたちがよく見られます。

ジャワアカガシラサギは8月中旬ごろから複数個体が散発的に各田んぼで見られていますが、この個体はコンスタントに現れてくれます。

リュウキュウヨシゴイも巣立ったヒナたちは独り立ちし幼鳥、成鳥と頻出中。冬羽になっても鮮やかなオレンジ色が目をひきますね。

ズグロミゾゴイも独り立ちした今年生まれの若い個体を林道や農地など決まった場所に現れ、ムラサキサギもこの時期、幼鳥から成鳥までいろいろなバリエーションを楽しめます。

白いサギはコサギ、チュウサギ、チュウダイサギ 、アマサギが数を増やしてカラシラサギとアカガシラサギもまもなく到着するでしょう。

Javan Pond Heron

A Javan Pond Heron that has been staying for quite a long time.

Javan Pond Heron

Preening. The wingtips are entirely white.

Javan Pond Heron

A Javan Pond Heron stepping down from its perch into a fallow field.

Javan Pond Heron

A Javan Pond Heron, 0.3 seconds before doing That.

Yellow Bittern

A Ryukyu Least Bittern foraging in the usual irrigation channel.

Yellow Bittern

It walks along the channel picking off mole crickets, grasshoppers and the like.

Purple Heron

A Purple Heron had just its head poking out of the reeds. This one will eat anything — frogs, snakes, birds — a real glutton.

Malayan Night Heron

A beautiful Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile. Adults are lovely too, but this juvenile's patterning is something else.

Intermediate Egret

An Intermediate Egret in the grass. They're not that common on Ishigaki-jima, but several are staying in this heron area.

Great Egret

A Medium Egret in a flooded rice paddy. Would love to see the subspecies alba as well.

Little Egret

Little Egret, present year-round. They don't appear to be breeding.

Categories: 野鳥