造成地でホシムクドリ、マミジロタヒバリなど
造成地にホシムクドリ10羽ほどの群れがムクドリに混じっていました。マミジロタヒバリは2羽。ムナグロは数十羽。チョウゲンボウやサシバが飛ぶたびにムナグロは右往左往してた。
野良猫も何頭かいて、造成地の草むらをウロウロ。渡り鳥の休憩場所になっているので影響が心配ですねー。
Common Starling adult.
Pacific Golden Plover and Common Starling. A very Okinawan scene.
Are Common Starlings with grey irises juveniles?
Buff-bellied Pipit on guard against a stray cat.
Two Buff-bellied Pipits have been staying in the same spot for about three days. Last year, two Buff-bellied Pipits also wintered in the same location.
Buff-bellied Pipits come to Okinawa Island as winter visitors in smaller numbers compared to Ishigaki Island and elsewhere.
Common Kestrel. It was disturbing the Pacific Golden Plovers on a development site.
The kestrel's prey was a large grasshopper, apparently a Formosan rice grasshopper.