3/10/09 Rain overnight and heavily overcast at dawn with a NNW3-4 wind. Sunny by 7.30am with the wind moderating becoming a warm and humid day. Being a Saturday around 30 day-tripping twitchers (including Rob) arrived and successfully saw the Whinchat. Our highlight was finding a pair of Yellow-throated Buntings in trees near the lighthouse that we later relocated showing well along the Southern Central Track. Aki found a Radde's Warbler at the School Field just prior to his and Rob's departure on the afternoon ferry.
The Tree Shrine open for a change
Juvenile Black-eared Kites near the North Shrine
Radde's Warbler at the School Field
The Radde's Warbler twitch at the School Field
Aki, one of the sharpest Japanese birders, just prior to leaving the island... again!
Adult male non-breeding Yellow-throated Bunting
Female Yellow-throated Bunting along the Southern Central Track
Female Blue Rock Thrush along the western shore
Painted Lady Butterfly along the Western Perimeter TrackSpecies noted:
Streaked Shearwater 5
Eastern Reef Egret 1
Grey Heron 4
Mandarin Duck 4
Wigeon 1
Teal 6
Black-eared Kite 5
Sparrowhawk 1
Peregrine 2
Grey-tailed Tattler 1
Black-tailed Gull 100
Japanese Woodpigeon 1
Rufous Turtle Dove 2
Common Kingfisher 1
Olive-backed Pipit 2
Siberian Buff-bellied Pipit 1
Grey Wagtail 5
Black-backed Wagtail 20
Siberian Stonechat 1
Whinchat 1
Blue Rock Thrush 10
White's Thrush 3
Pale Thrush 3
Eye-browed Thrush 5
Dusky Thrush 3
Japanese Bush Warbler 6
Oriental Great Reed Warbler 1
Arctic Warbler 5
Radde's Warbler 1
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 1
Grey-streaked Flycatcher 2
Brown Flycatcher 1
Bull-headed Shrike 1
Large-billed Crow 4
White-cheeked Starling 1
Brambling 11
Oriental Greenfinch 20
Black-faced Bunting 10
Yellow-throated Bunting 2
Little Bunting 5
