European Golden Plover, ヨーロッパムナグロ

My 2nd attempt to get reasonable images of the foreign visitor in Saga. And they turned out a bit better then 10 days before. Once the bird was located in the crowd it was easy to follow among all the other plovers, the hundreds of Grey Plovers, ダイゼン thanks to the golden color, small head and bill, slender posture. Pretty bird.

The white coloring under the wings distinguishes it from the Pacific Golden Plover, which is colored grey there. Just as well there weren't any of those, the European would be so hard to find!

Visit to Saga 1; European Golden Plover, ヨーロッパムナグロ

The scene at the mudflats during low tide. All birds so far away from us. 2 determined birders from Osaka managed to locate the rare European Golden Plover with their scopes. I would never have found it by myself.

Between the Bar-tailed Godwit, オオソリハシシギ and the Common Shelduck,  ツクシガモ is the European Golden Plover, ヨーロッパムナグロ - sleeping soundly.

Waking up, trying a few steps

But staying around the same puddle - far away

Many Saunders's Gulls, ズグロカモメ; their heads turning black for summer plumage

At another field nearby: Female Merlin, コチョウゲンボウ