アカショウビン、ウズラシギ、トウネンほか
軽く見回り。雑木林にアカショウビン、大雨で水が溜まったサトウキビ畑にはウズラシギ、トウネン、コアオアシシギ、アオアシシギ、セイタカシギ、コサギ、チュウサギなどが集まっていた。石垣島のシギの春の渡りはほぼ終わっているのでうれしい出会いでした。
近くの沈砂池には、クロハラアジサシ21羽の群れが入っていました。
カタグロトビの子育ても順調のようです。
A Ruddy Kingfisher in a dim woodland. It appears to have come to bathe in a puddle on the path.
This individual is relaxed enough that it doesn't flush even when a car passes underneath.
There were about three Pectoral Sandpipers in summer plumage. Haven't seen them in a while. ^^
Just one Red-necked Stint, tagging along after the Pectoral Sandpipers.
Black-winged Stilts numbered in the teens.
A Marsh Sandpiper in summer plumage, distant.
The Common Greenshank is distant too. The rain that had fallen until yesterday cleared as if it had never happened, and heat rising from the warmed ground caused the air to shimmer — I couldn't get a decent focus… ^^;