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.
2つ目のサンコウチョウ営巣。前に見つけたのは遠過ぎたけど、ここは家の近く。^^ なんとなく入った藪の中で営巣していました。ヒナは孵化数日ってところでした。
Got the whole bird, but the background… ^^;
It catches small moths neatly in mid-air and carries them to the nest. The female appeared to be hunting farther away.
3巣のコノハズクを見てきました。どこも順調に子育てが進んでいるようです。ついでに、新しい巣も見つけました。石垣島のコノハズクの密度は思った以上に濃そうだ。^^
A female Oriental Scops Owl watching her chick.
Crows are also nesting nearby, and the male Oriental Scops Owl attacks every time the parent crow brings food to its chick. ^^;
The female waits at the entrance of the nest hole.
The Oriental Scops Owls at the fishing port have become hard to find with all the foliage grown in, but I managed to spot them.
There was another one just a few metres from the owl above. When one started calling, the other called back as if in reply. Territorial display, I'd say.
The foliage here was too thick and this was the best I could get…. ^^;
The chicks here also seem to be growing well — the parent had been pushed out of the nest hole. ^^
巣穴のヒナが大きく成長しているようで、メスが外へ追いやられています。
This is a spot where Oriental Scops Owls nest every year, but it was my first time seeing the female. ^^
The male was nowhere to be found.
Also a spot where they nest every year. My guess is this one will fledge the earliest.
The male was perched in the tree behind.
こんなコノハズクを見たのは初めてです。左目が真っ黒。カンムリワシでは2羽いるのですが…。
観光客がよく来る底地ビーチの防風林をずーっと上を向きながら探していたので、変な人に映ったことでしょう。^^;
It was calling high up in a Fukugi tree, and my neck got tired from looking up searching for it…. ^^;
Seeing only one eye gives it a strange look.
旧暦の5月4日のユッカヌヒーで八重山の梅雨はあけたのですが、今日は芒種なのでしばらく雨が降るでしょう。
沢登りをしていたら、サンコウチョウも営巣に入っていました。
The contrast of green and red is beautiful.
A cute Oriental Scops Owl. Little ear tufts sticking up from the top of its head. ^^