12th October 2012 Hegura-jima NW3 Overcast

Early morning overcast with a brisk NW3 wind. It remained cloudy on and off all day that produced a fall of Daurian Redstarts. Tsukasa produced a Common Rosefinch that was quickly followed by finding the only Red-breasted Flycatcher of our trip at the North Cape. The SW enclosures played host to another Common Rosefinch. Early afternoon at the Drinking Pool produced another Gray's Grasshopper Warbler and another visit to Tsukasa and the North Cape two Yellow-browed Warblers.

Streaked Shearwater 40
Grey Heron 3
Mandarin Duck 1
Teal 3
Spot-billed Duck 1
Black-eared Kite 1
Peregrine 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Grey-tailed Tattler 1
Black-tailed Gull 100
Slaty-backed Gull 4
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Skylark 5
Olive-backed Pipit 3
Grey Wagtail 2
Black-backed Pipit 8
Brown-eared Bulbul 10
Red-flanked Bluetail 2
Daurian Redstart 20
Stejneger's Stonechat 6
Blue Rock Thrush 4
Brown Thrush 2
Pale Thrush 6
Eye-browed Thrush 3
Dusky Thrush 60
Naumann's Thrush 1
Japanese Bush Warbler 5
Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler 1
Gray's Grasshopper Warbler 1
Arctic Warbler 6
Pacific Warbler 1
Yellow-browed Warbler 2+
Goldcrest 40
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 1
Brown Flycatcher 1
Red-breasted Flycatcher 1
Narcissus Flycatcher 1
Varied Tit 1
Eastern Great Tit 1
Japanese White-eye 15
Large-billed Crow 2
Brambling 60
Oriental Greenfinch 20
Siskin 70
Common Rosefinch 2
Japanese Grosbeak 4
Hawfinch 15
Masked Bunting 20
Grey Bunting 5
Black-faced Bunting 2
Pine Bunting 3
Chestnut-eared Bunting 1
Elegant Bunting 12
Tristram's Bunting 4
Rustic Bunting 8
Little Bunting 1
Reed Bunting 1



Male Daurian Redstart at the Harbour Park

Common Rosefinch at Tsukasa

Somebody important overflying Hegura-jima!

Grey-tailed Tattler on the southwest beach

Black-faced Bunting along the Central Track

Gray's Grasshopper Warbler at the Drinking Pool

Pale Thrush at the Drinking Pool

Preying Mantis along the Central Track

Third-winter Slaty-backed Gull and first-winter Black-tailed Gull

Yellow-browed Warbler at Tsukasa

Yellow-browed Warbler at the North Cape

Hegura-jima Lighthouse