ベニバトの群れ、チョウゲンボウ、カンムリワシほか
ベニバトは各地に入りました。島内で一番大きな群れは9羽でオスとメスは半々でした。
越冬チョウゲンボウも増えだし、近くの水場にはカイツブリやオオバンが増えていました。こちらも石垣島で越冬していきます。
カンムリワシは子育てが終わり、田んぼなどひらけた環境で見いやすくなってきました。
A male Pale-backed Pigeon. Looking worn out after a spell of rough weather.
This is the female Pale-backed Pigeon. She was feeding on fallen rice grains in a paddy field.
The Pale-backed Pigeons were moving around together with Oriental Turtle Doves.
A wintering Common Kestrel. Soaked to the skin in the rain.
A soaking-wet Crested Serpent Eagle.
A juvenile Ruff. The autumn passage peak for Ruff this season was around mid-September, but this individual showed up more than a month late.
Little Grebe have also arrived to overwinter.
A wintering Eurasian Coot and a resident Common Moorhen feeding together peaceably on the pond.