First Rustic Bunting of the season, increasing Dusky Thrushes, Japanese Waxwings and more
Rustic Buntings arrived in a flock of around 30 — quite unusual to see numbers like that on Ishigaki. Four Japanese Waxwings are on a kapok tree. Dusky Thrushes are increasing, several Amur Stonechats are staying, and Eastern Yellow Wagtails, White Wagtails, and Grey Wagtails are also on the rise.
Rustic Bunting preening.
Two Rustic Buntings.
The Rustic Buntings were feeding on rice in a harvested paddy field.
Four Japanese Waxwings. They were eating Schefflera berries.
Dusky Thrushes have been increasing in the farmland and paddies. They will likely spread out across the island from here.
Multiple Siberian Stonechats staying on.
Siberian Stonechats at a different location. All females.
Eastern Yellow Wagtail, first-winter. White Wagtails have finally started to increase as well.
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