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.
先日、友達とあたりをつけていたアオバズクを見てきました。^^ ついでにコノハズクも。
It's a male. Telling the sexes apart is difficult with Oriental Scops Owls, but with Brown Hawk-Owls you can kind of tell. ^^
It had been sleeping way up high for a long time, but when a crow came nearby it opened its eyes just a little for me. ^^
ヒナの声が巣から外まで聞こえるようになってきました。明日か明後日には巣立ちでしょう。^^
しかし、なんでコノハズクの巣の上に巣をつくっちゃったんだろう…。^^;
It caught a caterpillar in the tree right beside me and carried it off to the nest. Once before, it perched on the front of my lens. ^^;
It carries the food inside but comes back out without giving it to the chick, so fledging must be close. ^^
Unlike the Ruddy Kingfisher and the Oriental Scops Owl, it brings food frequently.
午前中は全くダメでしたが、夕方になんとか1羽。^^;
Both the Brown Hawk-Owl and the Oriental Scops Owl have started incubating. ^^
久しぶりに行ってきました。^^ ぼちぼち飛びました。
近くでは、サクラランが咲いていました。
There are more than around this time last year.
Hoya was blooming high up.
メスはどこも抱卵に入っているので見つかるのはオスばかり。先週から一斉に抱卵に入りました。
A male Ruddy Kingfisher paired with a different female from last year. They built their nest in a Formosan subterranean termite mound, but the entrance has broken open and the incubating female is in plain sight — I wonder if that's okay…
This one's mate, the female, also nested in a termite mound. About 10 m to the west of last year's site.
He was every bit the male. I was worried this year because the birds were late to arrive on migration, but he came back to his usual territory. ^^