与那国島でバードウオッチング
キタヤナギムシクイを見ることができた先週 に続いての与那国島出張。今回も仕事の合間に鳥見は忘れません。^^
前回のような特筆する種類は見られませんでしたが、サンコウチョウの小さな群れがあちこちにいるのが印象的でした。もちろんカワリサンコウチョウにも期待しましたが、残念ながらそれらしいのには巡り会えず…。
Discovered a flock of Japanese Paradise Flycatchers beside the park car park.
This one is a male Japanese Paradise Flycatcher. I could occasionally hear it singing as well.
This flock of Japanese Paradise Flycatchers numbered close to ten birds.
They were moving around foraging inside a dim, scrubby woodland.
A Mallard turned up for some reason. Feels a little early…
Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile. Even on Yonaguni Island, all I kept seeing were snipe.
This one is also a Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile.
A Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile that froze because I got too close.
Swinhoe's Snipes in the distance. They were all juveniles.
Among a flock of Swinhoe's Snipes, one lone adult Common Snipe.
Two Dunlins, both juveniles. There are almost no rice paddies on Yonaguni Island, and the second crop wasn't being grown this time either, so waders were scarce. In the irrigation channels there were Long-toed Stints, Black-winged Stilts, Red-necked Stints, and Little Ringed Plovers.