Choa Chu Kang Cemetery 15Apr18

From Con

Just got the Black Kite at Christian Cemetery :-)

The grounds keepers at the cemetery throw food scraps on the big lawn. The kites come for breakfast! Yesterday the black kite showed up around 8:30. Today around 10. Lucky I just arrived!

Tuas 23Oct14

From GC

Greater Spotted Eagle, 1st of the season!

It just gets better... 10 mins after the GSE... 1st of the season... a Black Kite!

Japan 27Sep-10Oct13

From Yamane

I report you about my Raptor Watch in Miura Peninsula in Sep. and Oct. I visited 2 place in the peninsula, Inamuragasaki and Takeyama. The map is shown as follows.

*The black arrows is the routes of Raptors’ migration.

 
　 Date:    27. Sep.  6. Oct.  7. Oct.  10. Oct
　 Place:    Inamuragasaki  Takeyama  Takeyama  Takeyama
1 Chinese Bamboo Partridge 　 -   *   *   *
2 Oriental Turtle Dove   *   *   *   *
3 Oriental Cuckoo 　  -   * 　-   - 　
4 Pacific Swift   26 　  -   * 　-
5 House Swift 　 -　 　-    -    *
6 Pacific Golden Plover 　 -　 　-   -   *
7 Osprey    1   1   2   1
8 Oriental Honey Buzzard  14   1   1   6
9 Black Kite    *   *   *   *
10 Japanese Sparrowhawk  1 　 -    1   -
11 Northern Goshawk 　 -    1   1   1
12 Grey-faced Buzzard   276 　 -    39   250
13 Common Buzzard   1   3   2   3
14 Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 　-    *   *   *
15 Japanese Green Woodpecker 　-    *   *   *
16 Eurasian Hobby 　 -　 　-   -    2
17 Peregrine Falcon 　 -    1 　- 　-
18 Carrion Crow   *   *   *   *
19 Jungle Crow    *   *   *   *
20 Varied Tit 　 -    *   *   *
21 Japanese Tit 　 -    *   *   *
22 Barn swallow 　-     *   *   *
23 Red-rumped Swallow   4 　 -　  -    *
24 Brown-eared Bulbul   *   *   *   *
25 Japanese Bush Warbler 　-    *   *   *
26 Long-tailed Tit 　 -    *   *   *
27 Arctic Warbler 　 -　  -    * 　-
28 Japanese White-eye   *   *   *   *
29 Blue Rock Thrush   *  -   -   -　 　
30 Narcissus Flycatcher 　 -   *   -   -　
31 Grey-streaked Flycatcher 　-    *   *   *
32 Brown Flycatcher 　- 　 -   *   -　
33 Blue-and-white Flycatcher 　-   * 　-   -
34 Eurasian Tree Sparoow  *   *   *   *
35 Olive-backed Pipit 　 -　 　-   -   *
36 Meadow Bunting 　 -    *   *   *

Time : 7:00~12:00 (7:00~15:00 only on 7. Oct. )
On 7. Oct., no migration in the morning. But, around noon, we found 2 GFB migrators, and we continued the observation. because of the special weather condition. Basically the migrations stopped until noon. Because of wind direction, it changes around noon usually.
“*” means we don’t count the numbers.

OHB 27. Sep. Inamuragasaki	OHB 7. Oct. Takeyama

GFB 7. Oct. Takeyama	Eurasian Hobby 7. Oct. Takeyama

Common Buzzard 7. Oct. Takeyama	Black Kite 6. Oct. Takeyama

Common Buzzard 6. Oct. Takeyama	The observation point at Takeyama

Japan 19-21May13

From Yamane

19 May

I report you about my birding at my favourite place on 19 May. At last, Japanese Paradise-flycatchers came!

19. May 2013 Hayama/Morito River Upperstream 10:00-15:00

1. Chinese Bamboo Partridge
2. Oriental Turtle Dove
3. Lessor Cockoo
4. Black Kite
5. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
6. Japanese Green Woodpecker
7. Japanese Paradise-flycatcher (male)

8. Jungle Crow
9. Varied Tit
10. Japanese Tit
11. Barn swallow
12. Brown-eared Bulbul
13. Japanese Bush Warbler
14. Long-tailed Tit
15. Eastern Crowned Warbler
16. Japanese White-eye
17. Blue-and-white Flycatcher (male)

18. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
19. Japanese Pied Wagtail
20. Meadow Bunting

* Japanese Paradise Flycatches reached here. I could see 1 pair of them. But they didn’t start meking their nest.
* Some Blue-and white Flycatchers seemed to start breeding. But not all. The male in this picture seemed not to find his partner.

20-21 May

I report you of White-bellied Green-pigeon, drinking sea warter. They started drinking around May to Oct. every year.

Left male, right female

Male has yellow breast and dark-red wings. Female is almost light-green breast & olive wings. As they are named, their bellies’ color is whity or cream. Generally they are residents in mountains. They come here for only drinking sea water. Some pigeons stay at the forest near the seashore in the previous night. Others come directly from the mountains, named Tanzawa mountains.

They come some times for drinking in a day, mainly in the morning. Between the drinking times they rest in the near forest.

After their breeding, also their young birds come here with the parents around Jul. It’s dangerous for the pigeons to drink sea water. Also on 21 May, we saw a pigeon that was washed away by waves unfortunately. We don’t understand why they drink sea water. Some persons are researching these behaviors. We know the Pigeons drink sea water at only some places.

Terugasaki, Oiso, Kanagawa
9. May 2013 9:30-12:00
20. May 2013 9:30-11:00
21. May 2013 8:30-11:00

1. White-bellied Green Pigeon
2. Streaked Shearwater

3. Japanese Cormorant

4. Whimbrel

5. Grey-tailed Tattler
6. Common Sandpiper
7. Black-tailed Gull
8. Black Kite (harassed by crow)

9. Jungle Crow
10. Barn swallow (In the building of Oiso train station.)

11. Common House Martin (We can see the many nests of Common House Martins near place.)

12. Brown-eared Bulbul
13. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
14. Japanese Pied Wagtail

Japan 04-06Mar13

From Yamane

4Mar

I visited Maioka Park in Yokohama between 2 business meetings. I report as follows; I attached the pictures of * species.

1. Oriental Turtle Dove
2. Japanese Green Woodpecker
3. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
4. Common Snipe*
5. Jungle Crow
6. Bull-headed Shrike
7. Varied Tit*
8. Japanese Tit
9. Long-tailed Tit
10. Brown-eared Bulbul
11. Japanese Bush Warbler
12. Japanese White-eye
13. White-cheeked Starling
14. Red-flanked Bluetail*
15. Brown-headed Thrush*
16. Pale Thrush
17. Dusky Thrush*
18. Daurian Redstart* male, female
19. Hawfinch
20. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
21. Japanese Pied Wagtail
22. Black-faced Bunting* male & female

I could watch Red-flanked Bluetail, but I could not watch Bullfinch, & Common Kingfisher.

5Mar

Today, I visited the lower stream of Tama River, after the business meeting in Tokyo. Near Haneda Airport. Now Fieldfare, there. It’s very rare in Japan.

6Mar

Today, I visited the Tokyo University on my business. I found the garden with the pond in the campus. Luckily I could watch the birds, as follows:

1. Eastern Spot-billed Duck*
2. Oriental Turtle Dove
3. Common Kingfisher*
4. Jungle Crow
5. Varied Tit
6. Coal Tit
7. Japanese Tit
8. Brown-eared Bulbul
9. Japanese Bush Warbler
10. Japanese White-eye
11. White-cheeked Starling
12. Hawfinch
13. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
14. Grey Bunting*

Japan 10Feb13

From Yamane

I had birding at Oi Wild Birds Park in Tokyo in this morning. I send some pictures(*).

Little Grebe
Great Cormorant *
Mallard *
Northern Shoveler *
Tufted Duck *
Common Pochard *
Black Kite *
Common Buzzard
Oriental Turtle Dove
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker *
Japnese Pied Wagtail (White Wagtail)
Brown-eared Bulbul
Dusky Thrush
Pale Thrush *
Daurian Redstart *
Japanese Tit (Great Tit)
Japanese White-eye
Black-faced Bunting
Oriental Greenfinch
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
White-cheeked Starling *
Jungle Crow (Large-billed Crow)