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.
師匠から、ズグロチャキンチョウがいるとのことで田んぼに行ったのですが、見つけられずでした。
同じ田んぼに、ハヤブサにでも襲われたのでしょうか。首のあたりを少し食われたアマサギがいました。こんな状態でも変わらず餌探しに勤しんでいました…。^^;
タシギが数羽とタカブシギが数羽いましたが、シギチは少なくなってしまいました。
Even with a hole in its neck, it was still taking grasshoppers and other prey. Tough bird.
Looking carefully, Common Snipe were dotted here and there along the berm.
冬のヤツガシラの季節がやってきました。12月下旬から渡りと越冬組のヤツガシラが石垣島にはやってきます。川平石崎にヤツガシラが1羽いました。師匠、名古屋からのバードウオッチャーの経由で教えていただきました。鳥の世界も狭いですねー。
ツグミの仲間はここ数日でドカンと増えました。今年もハチジョウツグミはたくさんです。ツグミの仲間はここ3年連続で多い冬が続いています。
This Eurasian Hoopoe is usually all about cockroaches, but today it was eating what looked like a hawkmoth larva. The thing was so big the bird kept wandering around with it dangling from the tip of its bill, but it finally managed to swallow it.
It was stitching across the lawn like a sewing machine, probing for cockroaches, but there didn't seem to be many here, and after a while it flew off somewhere.
Good numbers of Naumann's Thrushes have come in too. There are also plenty of Brown-headed Thrushes and Pale Thrushes, but the Pale Thrush seems to be top dog, ruling over the lawn. ^^;