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.
繁殖期に入ると出会う機会がすっかり減ってしまうカンムリワシですが、8月も中旬ごろになると田んぼなど人目につき場所に現れるようになります。
A Crested Serpent Eagle in flight. Magnificent. ^^
I wonder whether the chick was raised successfully.
A Crested Serpent Eagle watching a tractor ploughing a paddy field. It is waiting for frogs and other prey to leap out.
8月10日に初認 したジシギがどんどん増えています。この日はハリオシギとチュウジシギが成鳥、幼鳥合わせて7羽ほどが一つのエリアで確認できました。タシギの初陣はまもなく到着です。
Swinhoe's Snipe, adult, late summer plumage.
Swinhoe's Snipe in flight.
Latham's Snipe, juvenile (foreground), and Swinhoe's Snipe, adult.
An individual that came down into the paddy and disappeared into the grass in an instant. Tentatively Swinhoe's Snipe.
Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.
Latham's Snipe, adult.
Latham's Snipe, juvenile. It had been with the adult above and I'd startled them, so I pulled the blind over and waited — then after all that, a Black-crowned Night Heron came looking for dinner and flushed it…
Latham's Snipe, adult, late summer plumage.
Latham's Snipe, juvenile. Many Latham's Snipe in Okinawa show characters leaning toward Swinhoe's, which makes identification tricky.
Latham's Snipe, juvenile.
Latham's Snipe, adult.
This one is also a Latham's Snipe.
Greater Painted-snipe, female.
Greater Painted-snipe, male. When you're searching for Gallinago snipe, the silhouette is similar enough to give you a start.
A flock of Eurasian Tree Sparrows hatched this year. Groups like this are forming here and there.