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

カンムリワシの幼鳥と成鳥

石垣島では田植え前の代かきや牧草の刈り取りがあちこちで始まり、それにつられカンムリワシも餌を求めて現れています。

今季は、幼鳥の定着率が悪く、いたと思ったら翌日にはいなくなりしばらく姿を見ないというようなケースが多く発生しています。理由はよく分かりません。

Crested Serpent Eagle

Crested Serpent Eagle, juvenile. Facing its first winter with little food, it seems a bit listless.

Crested Serpent Eagle

When frogs and other creatures were turned up from the soil during rice paddy puddling, it would swoop down and catch them.

Crested Serpent Eagle

Caught a frog. Prey this size gets swallowed whole.

Crested Serpent Eagle

Spotted prey and headed out again.

Crested Serpent Eagle

A female Crested Serpent Eagle known as "Point." She gets her name from a blemish on her right eye. Calling back and forth with her paired male.

Crested Serpent Eagle

The male paired with the 'point' bird above. Calling back and forth to each other.

Daurian Redstart

A male Daurian Redstart beside the Point couple. It knows full well that the Crested Serpent Eagle won't attack.

Crested Serpent Eagle / Tundra Swan

A rare two-shot of a Crested Serpent Eagle and a Tundra Swan.

Crested Serpent Eagle

A Crested Serpent Eagle that caught a mouse in a meadow being mowed.

Large-billed Crow

A Large-billed Crow came to try to steal it. ^^;

Categories: 野鳥