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.
ソリハシセイタカシギがツクシガモに近づくとなにが気に入らなかったのか、いきなりツクシガモがセイタカシギに噛み付きました。その後は、何もなかったかのように多少距離を空けて休んでいました。
ダイゼン、キョウジョシギ、メダイチドリ、シロチドリなども越冬中です。
A Common Shelduck bit a Pied Avocet. Several feathers were knocked loose.
Grey Plover, first-winter plumage. The monotone is beautiful.
Ruddy Turnstone, first-winter plumage.
A flock of Lesser Sand Plovers and Kentish Plovers resting on a sandbar.
2月に入り、暖かい日はリュウキュウサンショウクイが枝の天辺でよくさえずっています。メジロやシジュウカラ、イソヒヨドリなどの活動もかなり盛んになってきています。
越冬中のムネアカタヒバリも換羽が進み、夏羽に変わりつつあります。越冬中のノビタキもかなり黒っぽくなっています。
ホオジロハクセキレイやハクセキレイ、ツメナガセキレイ進み方はさまざまですが、夏羽に変わりつつあります。
越冬中のツグミやシロハラ、アカハラもまだまだ滞在中。年によりかなりばらつきがありますが、今季はそこそこの数が越冬しています。
Ryukyu Minivet, male.
Buff-bellied Pipit, transitioning from winter to summer plumage.
In late winter plumage, the pattern on the back becomes less distinct on Buff-bellied Pipits.
(Yellow-browed) Eastern Yellow Wagtail, first-winter plumage.
White-faced Wagtail, first-winter plumage. Transitioning toward summer plumage, looking scruffy and ruffled.
White-faced Wagtail, first-winter plumage.
White Wagtail, first-winter plumage.
Siberian Stonechat, male. It doesn't look like winter plumage, but I suppose this wears down into that summer plumage.
Dusky Thrush, female.
The Crested Serpent Eagle breeding season is approaching, and courtship feeding can be observed.