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!.

Sunday 6 July 2014

Crested Kingfisher, ヤマセミ 1

A popular bird among bird photographers here in Japan, but increasingly difficult to see around Fukuoka. I'd waited a long time for a chance, spent many mornings searching places where they'd ever been seen. A good friend jumped in and showed me a nesting site near one of the bigger rivers in the south. The first time I got there the chicks had left the nest and were going their own way already, so chances of seeing the whole family together were small. However, we found 2 siblings playing around a quiet part of the river. At one stage a 3rd bird dived in out of a tree from where it had been watching; probably a parent.




A bit of orange on the chest and malar stripe, but also under the wings. Is this a male or female?


2 birds practicing their fishing skills, but mostly caught leaves and twigs.





 My first decent images of a Crested Kingfisher in flight!


3 Crested Kingfishers!

Other birds around included Dippers, Wagtails and a Common Kingfisher.
Here is a juvenile Brown Dipper, カワカラス 幼鳥







I stopped by the next day around noon and didn't really expect anything, but one bird briefly perched on a rock before it disappeared in the greenery



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