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.

Ryukyu Ashy Minivet, リュウキュウ サンショウクイ

On the way to the mountains, near the dam:

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. 

Continuation of migrating birds

Every day seems different. This day there were a lot of thrushes around and many came down for a feed. Among the usual Pale Thrushes were the Brown-headed as before and this time also Eyebrowed Thrushes.

Eyebrowed Thrush,  マミチャジナイ

Greenfinches went quietly about their business of feeding on the young seeds of grass.

Oriental Greenfinch,  

カワラヒワ

A male Black-faced Bunting, usually seen pottering around the undergrowth, was now perched high up, singing its heart out.

Black-faced Bunting,  アオジ

Brown-headed Thrush,  アカハラ

今日の勉強   とても助かりました  Totemo tasukarimashita   It was a great help

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