I woke up at 5:00 AM as yesterday and drove northword from Nago City. Ryukyu Robin and Light-vented Bulbul sometimes crossed the road. Although I was carefully watching roadside, I did not have good luck to see any rail. Once I found a pair of rail, it was White-breasted Waterhen, which is common in Okinawa.
A Okinawa Rail was found in the forest edge in northern Kunigami Village. Luckily, it did not run into the bush and kept feeding roadside. The stripe body with red beak is so distinctive and more hundsome than my thought.
After the encounter, I drove into a forest trail. Although I was able to hear some Okinawa Rail's call, there was no more luck to see the rare rail.
Okinawa Woodpecker was sometimes seen along the trail though it was normally very shy and kept in the lower dense vegetation.
As I needed to go back to the Naha International Airport by 3:30 PM, I needed to leave Kunigami Village around 11:00 AM.. I decided to drop off Hiji Waterfall once again.
When I arrived in the waterfall, there were already some tourists. Although I did not expect good encounter of Ryukyu Robin and Okinawa Woodpecker, I saw the two species once again.
Ryukyu Robin is generally tame bird and often comes closer to people. I was so happy to take some nice pictures of the robin in the end of my trip.
Birds seen during the two days are as below.
1. Grey-faced Buzzard 2. Little Eagret 3. Great Egret 4. Cattle Egret 5. Okinawa Rail 6. White-breasted Waterhen 7. Oriental Turtle Dove 8. Whistling Green Pigeon 9. Okinawa Woodpecker 10. Japanese Pygmy Woodpekcer 11. Light-vented Bulbul 12. Brown-eared Bulbul 13. Ryukyu Minivet 14. Pacific Swallow 15. Barn Swallow 16. Ryukyu Robin 17. Blue Rockthrush 18. Pale Thrush 19. Brown-headed Thrush 20. Japanese Bush Warbler 21. Zitting Cisticola 22. Narcissus Flycatcher 23. Japanese Paradise Flycatcher 24. Varied Tit 25. Great Tit 26. Japanese White-eye 27. Eurasian Tree Sparrow28. Nutmeg Mannikin 29. Large-billed Crow
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