GUIDED BIRDWATCHING TOUR
We'll drive you around Ishigaki Island to wherever the birds are showing best that day. Observation is mostly from inside the vehicle, and we keep it to a maximum of 3 guests so everyone can take their time.
冬に渡ってくるシギの仲間です。
A small flock of Common Redshanks.
Lately the Common Greenshanks tend to be on their own.
Pacific Golden Plovers stand like ornaments on the wide lawn.
It was so small I thought — a Jack Snipe?! — but it is a Common Snipe. ^^;
About eight Common Snipe were bathing and foraging together.
A favourite sandpiper of mine. ^^
発見した時は、バンを水中で掴んでいました。カンムリワシもバンを襲うことあるんですねー。シロハラクイナの雛を襲うところは見たことあったけど…。^^;
After pulling it out of the water it carried it to a dead branch, then moved off with it into the undergrowth.
ヤツガシラを探しに島を一周しました。北部東側集落に4羽、島の西側の崎枝半島に1羽いました。越冬するのかな?
他の情報によると平久保小学校や野底小学校の校庭にも飛来しているそうです。今年は、ヤツガシラの当たり年ですね。
A reasonably handsome Eurasian Hoopoe.
By the time I noticed the exposure was badly off, it had already gone into the undergrowth… ^^; This one alone is from the Sakieda Peninsula.
In the middle of moult — the feathers around the crest and face look rather ragged.
The feathers around the neck on this one look rather ragged.
Every hoopoe here seems to prey exclusively on this one species of cockroach.
シマアカモズやシロハラも滞在が長くなり、人に慣れてきました。^^
A handsome male Bull-headed Shrike.
The Pale Thrush showed no wariness at all.