25/5/09 Out by 4.30am to cold temperatures and low cloud and a N3 breeze. The cloud cleared by midday leaving hazy sunshine but a cool afternoon. The morning yielded few new migrants and there was again no sign of the Pitta. The afternoon immediately produced a Striated Heron and the late afternoon typically proved productive at the Tsukasa fields with Lanceolated and Middendorff’s Warblers, Little and Japanese Yellow Bunting and a newly-arrived male Daurian Starling.
Female Eurasian Wigeon on the freshwater pool on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
A bleached first-summer Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Adult female hepatic morph Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Female Mugimaki Flycatcher along the northern Central Track on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Female Rufous-tailed Robin along the northern Central Track on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Male Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope along the northern Central Track on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Male Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius philippensis on the eastern shore of Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Adult Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis on the south-western shore of Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus on the western shore of Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps along the western shore of Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla at the Tsukasa Fields on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Oriental Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis at the Tsukasa Fields on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009 
Japanese Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata at the Tsukasa Fields, Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009
Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta at the Harbour Park on Hegura-jima, 25th May 2009Species noted:
Streaked Shearwater 1
Japanese Cormorant 10
Pelagic Cormorant 5
Striated Heron 1
Chinese Pond Heron 1
Cattle Egret 8
Little Egret 2
Intermediate Egret 7
Great Egret 1
Grey Heron 6
Wigeon 2
Spot-billed Duck 2
Crested Honey Buzzard 2
Black-eared Kite 2
Japanese Sparrowhawk 2
Peregrine 1
Pacific Golden Plover 1
Grey Plover 1
Red-necked Stint 16
Steppe Whimbrel 20 flew north
Common Sandpiper 1
Grey-tailed Tattler 5
Black-tailed Gull 250
Slaty-backed Gull 1
Oriental Turtle Dove 3
Common Cuckoo 2
Oriental Cuckoo 2
Little Cuckoo 1
White-throated Needletail 1
Sand Martin 1
Swallow 15
Red-rumped Swallow 5
Olive-backed Pipit 1
Grey Wagtail 3
Black-backed Wagtail 20
Brown-eared Bulbul 5
Rufous-tailed Robin 1
Siberian Rubythroat 2
Blue Rock Thrush 3
Japanese Grey Thrush 2
Eye-browed Thrush 1
Dusky Thrush 8
Japanese Bush Warbler 2
Middendorff’s Warbler 1
Lanceolated Warbler 1
Black-browed Reed Warbler 2
Oriental Great Reed Warbler 4
Arctic Warbler 3
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 1
Dark-sided Flycatcher 2
Grey-streaked Flycatcher 3
Brown Flycatcher 1
Mugimaki Flycatcher 1
Narcissus Flycatcher 2
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher 1
Coal Tit 1
Eastern Great Tit 1
Large-billed Crow 4
Daurian Starling 1
Chestnut-cheeked Starling 4
Brambling 1
Oriental Greenfinch 25
Japanese Grosbeak 2
Hawfinch 5
Black-faced Bunting 5
Japanese Yellow Bunting 1
Streaked Shearwater 1
Japanese Cormorant 10
Pelagic Cormorant 5
Striated Heron 1
Chinese Pond Heron 1
Cattle Egret 8
Little Egret 2
Intermediate Egret 7
Great Egret 1
Grey Heron 6
Wigeon 2
Spot-billed Duck 2
Crested Honey Buzzard 2
Black-eared Kite 2
Japanese Sparrowhawk 2
Peregrine 1
Pacific Golden Plover 1
Grey Plover 1
Red-necked Stint 16
Steppe Whimbrel 20 flew north
Common Sandpiper 1
Grey-tailed Tattler 5
Black-tailed Gull 250
Slaty-backed Gull 1
Oriental Turtle Dove 3
Common Cuckoo 2
Oriental Cuckoo 2
Little Cuckoo 1
White-throated Needletail 1
Sand Martin 1
Swallow 15
Red-rumped Swallow 5
Olive-backed Pipit 1
Grey Wagtail 3
Black-backed Wagtail 20
Brown-eared Bulbul 5
Rufous-tailed Robin 1
Siberian Rubythroat 2
Blue Rock Thrush 3
Japanese Grey Thrush 2
Eye-browed Thrush 1
Dusky Thrush 8
Japanese Bush Warbler 2
Middendorff’s Warbler 1
Lanceolated Warbler 1
Black-browed Reed Warbler 2
Oriental Great Reed Warbler 4
Arctic Warbler 3
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 1
Dark-sided Flycatcher 2
Grey-streaked Flycatcher 3
Brown Flycatcher 1
Mugimaki Flycatcher 1
Narcissus Flycatcher 2
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher 1
Coal Tit 1
Eastern Great Tit 1
Large-billed Crow 4
Daurian Starling 1
Chestnut-cheeked Starling 4
Brambling 1
Oriental Greenfinch 25
Japanese Grosbeak 2
Hawfinch 5
Black-faced Bunting 5
Japanese Yellow Bunting 1
Little Bunting 1
