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.
今季はベニバトが多すぎてだんだん飽きてきたのですが、オスの第1回冬羽がいたのでテンション上がりました。^^
ベニバトはキジバトの群れの中にオスが3羽でした。
Male Crimson Dove moulting into first-winter plumage.
Adult Crimson Dove. Still retaining much of the breeding plumage.
タイワンハクセキレイ、ホオジロハクセキレイ、ハクセキレイの群れとムネアカタヒバリの群れ。ムネアカタヒバリの群れに入ってるカワラヒワは撃沈…。^^;
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Taiwanese form), first-winter plumage.
Well, here's a White Wagtail that looks a bit odd. First-winter plumage.
Same individual as above. A type that looks like the Taiwanese form of Eastern Yellow Wagtail.
The white uppertail coverts are intriguing. What could it be?
An ordinary White Wagtail, first-winter plumage.
Red-throated Pipit, first-winter plumage.
ジャワアカガシラサギがまだいるのか!! と思ったらアカガシラサギに入れ替わっていました。^^; 今季はジャワアカガシラサギもアカガシラサギも長期間にわたって観察できています。
毎日観察できているズグロミゾゴイは換羽が進み顔の辺りは成鳥羽に変わってきました。
ヒシクイの家族が田んぼに飛来していましたがピリピリで軽トラが通ったらあっという間にどこかへ消えてしまいました。
マガモは田んぼに20羽ほどが滞在。近いのですが、雑草がじゃまでなかなか観察が難しいです。
Chinese Pond Heron, juvenile. Moult is progressing.
Malayan Night Heron, juvenile. Around the face and on part of the wing coverts it is beginning to acquire adult plumage.
The crest of this Malayan Night Heron juvenile has a heart-shaped mark. ^^
A family of Bean Geese. The two birds on the left and right are adults; the two in the middle are juveniles.
Bean Geese gleaning fallen grain. The one on the left is an adult; the rest are juveniles.
Eurasian Teal, adult female (foreground) and juvenile.
石垣島で越冬中のシギとチドリの紹介。
南の島ならではのアカアシシギは数羽の小さな群れ、一番数の多いセイタカシギは十数羽から二十数羽の群れが複数箇所、目立ちませんがタシギも多く越冬中で朝方や夕方は姿を現します。アオアシシギやクサシギ、イソシギあたりも少数が滞在中で、きょうはハマシギも1羽だけ発見しました。
今季はタゲリが多く、十数羽が越冬中です。コチドリも絶賛越冬中。
Common Redshank — the quintessential bird of Okinawa in winter. First-winter plumage.
Northern Lapwing, juvenile. Beautiful metallic sheen.
Common Snipe. Moulting from juvenile into first-winter plumage.
Also a Common Snipe moulting from juvenile into first-winter plumage.
Another Common Snipe. The snipe here are almost all Common Snipes.
Common Greenshank, adult winter plumage.
Green Sandpiper, first-winter plumage. The loudest and most conspicuous call of any wader here.
Dunlin, first-winter plumage.
久しぶりにオニアジサシ。1羽だけの飛来でした。
ユリカモメは3羽が田んぼに入りました。八重山では定期的に入るカモメの仲間といえばユリカモメとズグロカモメぐらいです。
An adult winter-plumage Caspian Tern resting in a rice paddy. For some reason this paddy often attracts Caspian Terns.
Black-headed Gull, adult, winter plumage. Beautiful.
Black-headed Gull, first-winter.
Also in first-winter plumage, but with more juvenile feathers retained than the individual above.