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.
アカハラの群れが雨の中、水浴びしていました。近くではシロハラも水浴び。アカハラの水浴びを見ているとウグイスも出てきました。
Brown-headed Thrush, adult male.
Brown-headed Thrush, adult female.
Brown-headed Thrush, male, first-winter.
Adult Pale Thrush bathing.
A Japanese Bush Warbler that always stays hidden and only calls finally came out into the open. Perhaps the rain had made it less wary.
Adult Ryukyu Turtle Dove. It was taking a shower in the rain.
家族でドライブ中、右足を骨折したズグロミゾゴイを発見。捕獲を試みましがた飛び回って捕まえられませんでした。地面で採餌する鳥なのでこのまま生きながらえてくれることでしょう。
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron with a broken right leg. Shot with a 50 mm I happened to have on me. It didn't flee when I approached, but I wasn't able to catch it.
Adult Black-crowned Night Heron. I came across several Black-crowned Night Herons in the rain.
天気の悪い日が続く石垣島です。鳥たちも島内では移動があるのですが、新たに何か入ってきそうな気配はないですねー。^^;
近所の河口と田んぼを少し回ってきましたが、ほとんどいつものメンバーでした。
オニアジサシは越冬モードなのですが、河口と田んぼを行ったり来たりしているようです。河口にはダイゼンが増えてきました。ムナグロも少々。ミユビシギは2羽が越冬モードです。メダイチドリとオオメダイチドリは日によっていたりいなかったり。ユリカモメは3羽ほどが島内をぐるぐるしています。
Adult Caspian Tern in wintering mode.
Grey Plover, adult winter (left) and first-winter.
Grey Plover, first-winter. Numbers have been picking up here lately.
Sanderling in wintering mode.
Grey-tailed Tattler, first-winter.
Black-headed Gull, first-winter.
Common Greenshank, adult winter.
Mixed flock of Lesser Sand Plovers and Kentish Plovers.
雨の降る中、暗色型サシバ(通称ブラックサシバ)は濡れ鼠になっていました。^^; あの精悍な姿はどこへ?
林道ではカンムリワシがカエルやカメが出てくるのを待ち構えていました。
海岸にはハヤブサが待機。獲物がやってくるのを待っていました。
The dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzard had been rained on and its good looks were completely ruined. ^^;
A dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzard — normally very wary — but thanks to the rain I was able to observe it closer than usual.
Crested Serpent Eagle, adult female.
This individual also appears to be a female.
An adult male Peregrine Falcon that was keeping the shorebirds and plovers on the coast on edge.