カンムリワシ幼鳥、タマシギ親子ほか(動画あり)
親離れも近くなり、カンムリワシの幼鳥がだんだん観察しやすくなってきました。石垣島内でも複数の幼鳥が確認されています。今季は台風もなく、繁殖成績が良さそうなので、何個体がカウントされるのか楽しみです。
先日のタマシギは1羽のヒナが巣内で死んでしまいましたが、生き残ったヒナは親鳥と元気に過ごしています。ネコ、カラス、カタグロトビと天敵は多いですが無事に育つといいですね。
Crested Serpent Eagle, juvenile. When it spotted something in a roadside ditch it would swoop down — practising its hunting on its own.
Purple Heron, juvenile. Perhaps because this area wasn't hit by the typhoon, numbers seem high this year.
Purple Heron, adult.
Greater Painted-snipe, male parent with chicks just a few days after hatching.
Red-necked Stint, adult (left), and Long-toed Stint, juvenile.
Red-necked Stint, juvenile.
Terek Sandpiper, adult. Every now and then you get one that wanders into the paddies.
Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.
Another Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.
Nothing but Swinhoe's Snipe juveniles.
Swinhoe's Snipe, adult. Birds in winter plumage are starting to appear.