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

ヨーロッパトウネン、ハリオシギ、ウズラシギなど

今季初のヨーロッパトウネンを確認しました。キリアイがいるということで見に行ったのですが、キリアイには会えず、かわりにヨーロッパトウネンを発見しました。

ハリオシギは少なくなりましたが逗留中。チュウジシギはかなりの数が滞在。中には妙に白い個体もいました。

エリマキシギやハマシギも滞在中。ハマシギは数を増やして4羽になっていました。

クロハラアジサシの幼鳥は今季初となりました。

セイタカシギやヒバリシギ、タカブシギ、コチドリ、ムナグロなどはとても多くなっています。

Little Stint

The first Little Stint of the season. It was a juvenile.

Little Stint

This Little Stint kept its distance from the flocks of Red-necked Stints and Long-toed Stints.

Pin-tailed Snipe

Pin-tailed Snipe, juvenile. I wonder how long it will stay.

Whiskered Tern

I have already recorded several White-winged Terns, but this was the first juvenile arrival of the season. It looked tired.

Whiskered Tern

I expect juvenile arrivals to increase from here. Hoping for Whiskered Terns as well.

Swinhoe's Snipe

Among a small flock of Swinhoe's Snipe there was one that was strikingly white — white-faced too — and looked very out of place.

Swinhoe's Snipe

Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.

Swinhoe's Snipe

Swinhoe's Snipe, adult.

Swinhoe's Snipe

Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.

Swinhoe's Snipe

Every snipe I come across is a Swinhoe's Snipe.

Pin-tailed Snipe

I really wanted to see the tail feathers on this one… Tentatively Pin-tailed Snipe.

Dunlin

Dunlin moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage.

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, late breeding plumage.

Red-necked Stint

Red-necked Stint, juvenile.

Red-necked Stint

Red-necked Stint, juvenile. Quite a different impression from the individual above.

Pacific Golden Plover

Pacific Golden Plover preening.

Pacific Golden Plover

Moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage. The primaries appear to be replaced from the middle outward.

Black-winged Stilt

Black-winged Stilt, adult. Moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

Categories: 野鳥