Glossy Ibis: Day 5
The Glossy Ibis that arrived on Ishigaki Island with Typhoon No. 9 is now in its fifth day of stay. It has become less wary and easier to observe.
Wood Sandpipers and Little Ringed Plovers on autumn migration have increased rapidly in the rice paddies. Little Terns that apparently bred on the island came to bathe, bringing their recently fledged chicks.
The Ruddy Kingfisher along the forest road has finished raising its young and is taking it easy.
By the fifth day of its stay, wariness had faded. It stopped flushing even when tractors and kei trucks passed by.
The metallic sheen of the feathers catches the light beautifully.
Wood Sandpipers that began arriving a few days ago have increased rapidly. Flocks are showing up in rice paddies here and there. Still all adults.
Little Ringed Plovers are also building in numbers. Again, a flock made up entirely of adults.
A fledgling Little Tern. The juvenile plumage is still very much in evidence, and the tail feathers are short.
An adult Little Tern. Around four family groups had come to a rice paddy to bathe.
The Ruddy Kingfishers appear to have mostly finished raising their young.
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