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

ハジロクロハラアジサシ、ツバメチドリ、アマツバメほか

今季は、真っ黒な夏羽のハジロクロハラアジサシが石垣島に多く飛来します。ゴールデンウイークから十数羽を確認しています。クロハラアジサシも多く、50羽近い群れも確認されています。

ツバメチドリはコロニーを形成中。今のところ40つがいほどが繁殖しそうですが、毎年、農作業が入るのかが運命の分かれ道となります。

天気が悪くなるとアマツバメとヒメアマツバメの群れが低空を飛びます。低空と言っても、いつもよりは低いだけで、それなりに高いところを飛び回っています。

シマアカモズはどんどん減っているのですが、それでもまだ残っている個体がいます。

田んぼには全体的に数は少ないですがウズラシギやセイタカシギ、アオアシシギあたりが滞在中です。

White-winged Tern

Second sunny day of the month. Ishigaki Island has had an abnormal amount of rain this year, and clear skies are hard to come by. ^^;

White-winged Tern

A White-winged Tern unable to retract its right leg. If anyone spots it upstream of Ishigaki Island, please let me know.

Whiskered Tern

About seven Black Terns came to the area in front of my house.

Whiskered Tern

A Black Tern that caught a grasshopper.

Whiskered Tern

Every prey item it caught was a grasshopper.

Oriental Pratincole

A colony of Oriental Pratincoles. A couple of pairs looked like they were incubating.

Oriental Pratincole

The sun blazed down for the first time in a while, and the heat shimmer made everything hazy. ^^;

Little Swift

A Pygmy Swiftlet diving toward an insect.

Pacific Swift

This one is a Fork-tailed Swift. Together with the Pygmy Swiftlets it was a mixed flock of about 20 birds.

Isabelline Shrike

The Brown Shrike is still present.

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper numbers are increasing.

Black-winged Stilt

A Black-winged Stilt with a faint pink blush on the breast. I always wonder — is this nuptial plumage?

Categories: 野鳥