Among a flock of several dozen Eastern Yellow Wagtails and Red-throated Pipits, there was one Siberian Eastern Yellow Wagtail. This season the numbers of Eastern Yellow Wagtails and Red-throated Pipits have been low — quite disappointing.
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (beema), first-winter plumage.
While watching shorebirds in the rice fields, a flock of about twenty Eastern Yellow Wagtails dropped in from above. I looked at the first three that landed in front of me and there they were — a Siberian Wagtail, a White-browed Wagtail, and an Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Yellow-browed type) lined up side by side in a row. What a sudden miracle!!
The second Siberian Wagtail of the season. Last month's bird was in winter plumage, but this one was in breeding plumage.
One Javan Pond Heron and three Chinese Pond Herons are staying on — all four are always together.
Oriental Pratincoles are increasing. On this day, nine were resting in the paddies, taking a break from the rain.
A Siberian Yellow Wagtail was on a paddy bund. The distance and the grass obscuring the bird made observation difficult; getting a few photos was the best I could manage. A Siberian Pipit was nearby.
The wintering Common Snipe have all but disappeared, though migrants are trickling through. Swinhoe's Snipe should be arriving soon.
Four Garganey turned up. If there's a duck that says spring on Ishigaki, it's the Garganey.
A Javan Pond Heron in winter plumage. Probably a first-winter individual.
秋の渡りが盛り上がってきている石垣島。
数日前のベニバト5羽 は滞在中。キリアイはたまに姿を消したりしながらも継続的に見られています。ハリオシギは数を増減しながらエリアもその時々で変わりますが、結構な数が逗留中です。チュウジシギ、タシギも順調に数を増やし、ジシギ天国となっています。サルハマシギは幼鳥3羽が飛来。アカアシシギやコアオアシシギは幼鳥が目立ち、ヒバリシギ、タカブシギは嫌になるほどいます。
台風後、島にやってきたハジロクロハラアジサシは3カ所で4羽が残っています。大量に入ったクロハラアジサシは数を減らしていますが、一部が滞在中。
今季はジャワアカガシラサギが多いのですが、アカガシラサギもぽつぽつと入っています。
A juvenile male Red Turtle Dove in transition from juvenile plumage to first-winter plumage.
数日中の野鳥の様子。金武の田んぼにはツメナガセキレイの群れが入っていました。ツバメチドリも十数羽。三角池には午前中、キリアイがいたそうですが、夕方にはいなくなっていた。トウネン、ヒバリシギ、コチドリはたくさんいた。
漫湖干潟のナンヨウショウビンは、ツミが現れて枝の上でのんびりするもんだから気配すらなし。^^;
A Sykes's Wagtail? at Kin, in juvenile-to-first-winter plumage. The supercilium looks like Sykes's Wagtail, but it's a juvenile, so… ^^;