Brambling, アトリ and Hawfinch, シメ

The migrating season is nearly over. This is what stopped by:

Brambling,  アトリ

female

male

Hawfinch,  シメ

One daring little bird stopping right in front of the lens to pick up its favorite seed

To be continued

Grey Nightjar ヨタカ 1

Grey Nightjar ヨタカ の ショートステー

One lucky day in the park.

After debating where to go for the day, the islands, the mountains, Imazu, we opted for Minami koen and the botanical gardens. And we got lucky. On top of this Nightjar we saw a Japanese Thrush and 2 or 3 Japanese Paradise Flycatchers. These last two moved too fast, too hard to capture, but the Nightjar sat very still.

Grey Nightjar  ヨタカ

Nearby, but hard to detect

Sleeping most of the time

鼻の穴 hana no ana, nostril 

Keeping an eye on the bug 

 What Insect is this?

And crows overhead 

Sound asleep again, till we left at the end of the day.
The next day he was gone.

今日の勉強   眠っています= sleeping

More migraters in the park

Siberian Blue Robin, male  コルリ

Each spring this Robin comes to the park. Is it the same bird every year?

Narcissus Flycatcher, female  キビタキ

This little girl had many birder confused for a while. That also seems to happen every year.

Due to the red-brown color near her tail.

Minivet

On the way to the mountains, near the dam:

(Ryukyu?) Ashy Minivet,  サンショウクイ (リュウキュウ?)

The bird seems a bit young. It's hard to tell if it is the Ryukyu Minivet or just the Ashy. Anybody who cen tell me, please mail me.

Siberian Rubythroat

I arrived an hour early for the monthly meeting of the Wild Bird Society in Imazu (Yes, I got the time wrong. It’s from June that we start at 8:00am) and decided to drive around a bit, hoping as usual for something spectacular to come up. Then, when it did I was totally unprepared. A Siberian Rubythroat sat perched on a branch right in front of me. It waited patiently till I had stopped the car, opened the window and taken out the camera and it even allowed me these few shots, before it disappeared into the darkness of the bushes.

Siberian Rubythroat,  ノゴマ

Other birds seen that day included these Dunlins and Black-winged Stilts. Actually, the list was quite long, with lots of different shorebirds, mostly migrators that stop briefly on the mudflats before continuing north to their breeding grounds.

Dunlin,  ハマシギ

 

Black-winged Stilt,  セイタカシギ

Terraced rice fields in April

This image of a sunset over terraced rice fields is taken at Hamanoura, near Genkai machi in Saga pref.