Part 3

The Minivets seem to like this place. It started with just 5 or 6 birds, last time there were about 50!　Some Ryukyu Minivets were among the Ashi Minivets. In the photos below, I think there are only Ashi males and females. 

Ashi Minivet, サンショウクイ

Mt Ibuki in August 5: Last birds and some left-overs

 On the way back down the mountain, at a point with broad-leaved trees I finally got to see some small birds. A small flock of Minivets was annoying a Flycatcher and a few Coal Tits. The Minivets are different from our Ryukyus

Ashy Minivet, サンショウクイ

Female birds were actively searching for food, coming out in the open regularly, but the males stayed hidden and were hard to capture

Japanese Sika Deer were about everywhere. I wonder what damage they cause to the fields...

Last image of Ibuki, a very long-necked snail with a beautiful shell, thin and transparant. It must be very young.

Japanese Robin, コマドリ and ....

Migrating birds taking a rest in the park on top of the hill

Japanese Robin, コマドリ

Something stumbled out of the bush where the robin was a few minutes before. To all our surprise it was a Woodcock, ヤマシギ !

Asian Brown Flycatcher, コサメビタキ

Ashy Minivet, サンショクイ

Eastern Crowned Warbler, センダイムシクイ

to be continued

Finally some birds

This month was cut in half by the typhoon. It was good. The weather became much nicer. Finally the humid hot days are over. The cool autumn breeze prevails. Skin problems are getting better. However today... it seems so hot again 💦 The migrating waders and shorebirds are coming and going. Locations are changing, when water-locked fields dry up or flow over with wild plants. Weeding is important. An abandoned place was cleaned up, so it's possible to walk there again. All right, but I'm missing out on some birds it seems...

A Eurasian Skylark, ヒバリ acting like a wader in a mostly dried up field. There was nobody else..

Around the corner just some resident birds.  

Great Egret, ダイサギ  Green Sandpiper, クサシギ

 and Common Sandpiper, イソシギ -  The latter being the smallest.

A few Terek Sandpipers, ソリハシシギ chasing each other, looking for small snails?

Ahh! One is different. A Broad-billed Sandpiper, キリアイ

In the woods where the caterpillars live: Oriental Cuckoo, ツツドリ

A flock of Minivets stopped by.リュウキュウサンショクイ  Sanshokui

Japanese Pepper, サンショウ  Sansho. I ate it. It's spicy! I could still taste it after an hour.. My throat went piririii

The Red Spider Lilies started coming out, ヒガンバナ

The spectacular Ageha butterflies as well. カラスアゲハ, Chinese peacock butterfly (Karasu Ageha)

In the usual moth corner:  ユウマダラエダシャク, Yumadara Edashaku,

A warbler, but which one?

And that was before the typhoon

In the mountains

A whole day off! I wanted to make good use of it.
My early start took me to the dam lake, where I saw 2 Crested Kingfishers, but not together. Are they going to find each other and build a nest? They were too far and too fast for a good shot.
Moving on I heard a Cuckoo calling. At my next stop were many voices. Grosbeaks and Minivets, several Flycatchers and swallows. It was a cheerful morning.

Asian Brown Flycatcher, コサメビタキ -  nesting right in front of us

Ryukyu Ashy Minivet, リュウキュウサンショウクイ

Have to get into the butterflies again. What's this one called again?

Chinese Windmill,  ジャコウアゲハ  (Atrophaneura alcinous) ♀

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