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.
天気が安定しませんが、カンムリワシの幼鳥は元気にしてます。^^
サシバは、最近見る機会が減りました。
Sheltering in the shade of a tree in the rain.
A juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle sitting alone in an odd spot. A new individual, I wonder?
Heavy machinery is noisily crushing a scrapped vehicle, but it doesn't seem fazed in the slightest. ^^;
A Grey-faced Buzzard that has settled in the park.
初めて見る個体。人をあまり恐れない。^^
Dives on a Ryukyu Box Turtle!!
Lunging for a perch.
Those primaries are looking pretty worn.
Just a few metres from the Crested Serpent Eagle.
クロツラヘラサギの成鳥と幼鳥がいました。来年の春ぐらいまでいるでしょう。
The one in the back — an adult, as the wings are pure white.
The one in the front — a juvenile, as the wings show dark patterning.
目の前2メートルをカンムリワシが飛翔!! ファインダーいっぱいに5連続写真です。
翼が風を切る音が聞こえるほどの近距離でしたー。^^
Shot 1.
Shot 2.
Shot 3.
Shot 4.
Shot 5.
人に飼われてたの?ってぐらい人慣れしたカンムリワシ。^^;
What a great face.
Hunting for crabs in the stream.
Caught a crab!!
This was the first time I'd seen one catch a crab this close up — it swooped in from a blind spot on a crab just barely poking its head out of its burrow, and plunged its foot right in!!
The nictitating membrane is closed to protect its eye.