Aisatsu

Aisatsu

This blog is for family and friends, to share my feelings and photos with and for myself, to support my fading memory. Readers who have my site translated automatically, please refer to the original if necessary. Especially when it comes to identification. Any comments, anonymous or by email name are always welcome!.

Showing posts with label Dark-sided Flycatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dark-sided Flycatcher. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Dark-sided Flycatcher, サメビタキ and other recent sightings in the mountains of Fukuoka pref.

After many years I saw this flycatcher again

Dark-sided Flycatcher, サメビタキ











Grey-streaked Flycatchers, エゾビタキ









young Blue-and-White Flycatcher, オオルリ



More of the Grey-streaked Flycatchers, エゾビタキ



Brambling, アトリ



Eurasian Wren, ミソサザイ





ジンジソウ,  Jinjiso Saxifrage,a kind of Rockfoil



I a dark Ceder forest one tree was entirely covered with these mushrooms



No names yet...







In one of the mountain-side ponds: Mandarin Duck, オシドリ
Way at the back I saw 2 males and a female.



Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Cuckoos and Flycatchers

Please note the many corrections.  I swapped images of the female flycatchers, below. Also concerning the cuckoo and the raptor. Then, the unknown warbler got a name! Thanx to Mr. H!

There are lots of little black droppings on the ground, meaning the critters, hairy caterpillars, who dropped them are in the foliage, high up in the trees where I can hardly see them, but where birds can see them very well and who loves them more the the members of the cuckoo family?
It took a while though. They were flying around, but would not rest on a place where I could see them. However I did get a little lucky at one stage...

female Common Oriental Cuckoo, カッコウ















Grey-streaked Flycatcher, エゾビタキ



Blue-and-white Flycatcher, オオルリ  female, I'm sorry, female Narcissus Flycatcher, キビタキ



Blue-and-white Flycatcher, オオルリ male





Narcissus Flycatcher, キビタキ Blue-and-white Flycatcher, オオルリ, female



Dark-sided Flycatcher, サメビタキ



When they don't sing it's too hard to tell. Some Warbler,  ?ムシクイ?
Thx to the expert: Arctic Warbler, Phylloscopus borealis: コムシクイ


No crown



Japanese White-eye, メジロ



3 raptors were circling overhead. Eurasian Sparrowhawks, ハイタカ Grey-faced Buzzard, サシバ 



 




Was still warm when I found him...  Oriental Cuckoo, ツツドリ


I really have to take my time and pay more attention. It's a learning curve!

Sunday, 13 May 2018

At the island, 100 Flycatchers and a Dollarbird, ブッポウソウ



I went to Oro on the 12th. The weather was great. Sunny, warm, hardly any wind and not from the north. It was so very quiet in the morning, I walked around, but heard and saw nothing. Even crows, kites and bulbuls seemed to be sleeping. I had nearly given up, started to walk back to the harbor. A southern breeze had picked up. Suddenly I heard small voices, far but coming closer. Then I saw a Brown Flycatcher, and another one, another one, 2,3, more. There must have been a hundred! 100 or more!

Asian Brown Flycatcher, コサメビタキ











Every tree had 1 or 2. I searched the branches for something different
Far away was a Dark-sided Flycatcher, サメビタキ



And, much further in the distance a Dollarbird, ブッポウソウ







On the side of the road an Olive-backed Pipit, ビンズイ







1 single Intermediate Egret, チュウサギ



At sea: Streaked Shearwaters, オオミズナギドリ