Third visit to Yonaguni this month
I made my third trip to Yonaguni Island this month. Small passerines were the main attraction: White Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Little Bunting, Daurian Redstart, and Brown Shrike among others.
There was a mixed flock of three subspecies of White Wagtail. This is a male leucopsis.
A few ocularis were also mixed in.
Just this one yarrellii.
A Red-throated Pipit against the backdrop of the Kuroshio Current.
There were fewer Red-throated Pipits than on the previous visit.
A flock of around 30 Little Buntings confirmed.
Just one Daurian Redstart. It was in the same grassland as the Little Buntings.
An Brown Shrike with Tindabana — one of Yonaguni Island's most iconic scenic spots — in the background.
There were plenty of Brown Shrikes around the pastures and hayfields.
A Eurasian Sparrowhawk was chasing White Wagtails around.
A few Grey-faced Buzzards as well. Some were riding thermals, circling as they gained altitude. Nearly time for the northward migration.
A Common Kestrel, showing no wariness, appeared to have caught a Patanga japonica — Japan's largest grasshopper. As Patanga japonica overwinter as adults, it was already a large individual to prey on.
Three Northern Lapwings at a materials yard. They were still there the next day, but by the third day they had moved on.
Two Common Snipe are staying in the waterway at Hikawa.
A pair of Eurasian Teal was in the same waterway as the Common Snipe.
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