{"id":39146,"date":"2013-05-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:46:49","slug":"bad-weather-morning-at-kabashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/bad-weather-morning-at-kabashima\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Weather Morning at Kabashima\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual the forecasters got it wrong – rain during the night clearing by dawn with sunny skies from noon – alas, rain, rain and more rain.<\/p>\n

In fact, it’s still raining now at 19:45! Anyway, I left home at 03:30 in order to catch the dawn and see if any migrants were around at Kabashima.<\/p>\n

The conditions meant I could have left at 07:00 and had plenty of time to catch the morning’s action but it’s nice to know I didn’t miss anything by arriving late.<\/p>\n

There were many birds calling, but all were skulking until mid-morning when a few began to show. Of interest were Siberian Blue Robin (glimpsed in the undergrowth), Blue-and-white Flycatcher and Tristram’s Bunting. I decided to also check some of the fields around Nomo town (the main township in the area) and turned up a small flock of Chestnut-cheeked Starling as well as a Little Bunting (rare in Japan).<\/p>\n

A nice Red-throated Pipit in breeding plumage was active in the fields but very flighty. Finally, as I was about to leave the area, a male Red-bellied Rock Thrush appeared beside my car with a centipede! It quickly disarmed the centipede by plying off its stingers before toying with it a bit more prior to flying off.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Blue-and-white Flycatcher (male)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual the forecasters got it wrong – rain during the night clearing by dawn with sunny skies from noon – alas, rain, rain and more rain. In fact, it’s still raining now at 19:45! Anyway, I left home at 03:30 in order to catch the dawn and see if any migrants were around at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/blue-and-white-flycatcher-male-2707-1024x6822.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[4389,4383,4390,4385,7835,2449,4386,4387,2760,4388,4384],"class_list":["post-39146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blue-robin","tag-blue-and-white-flycatcher","tag-centipede","tag-chestnut-cheeked-starling","tag-japan","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-little-bunting","tag-red-bellied-rock-thrush","tag-red-throated-pipit","tag-rock-thrush","tag-tristrams-bunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}