For New Year's, you can't leave out a juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle — the bird celebrated in the Okinawan song "Washi nu Tui-bushi."

Lesser Kestrel, juvenile. Wintering in the same spot. An individual with no wariness at all — easy to watch.

Common Kestrel, juvenile. This one also showed no wariness whatsoever.

A Hen Harrier appeared while I was watching the Rosy Starling. It seemed to be eyeing the starling flock but failed. Please, just don't hunt the Rosy Starling… ^^;

Black-winged Kite, juvenile.

Grey-faced Buzzard, juvenile. It was catching grasshoppers in a mown pasture.

Three Chinese Pond Herons are staying at two locations.

A wintering Hooded Crane. Lately it has been moving from feeding site to feeding site almost every day.

Ruddy Shelduck, juvenile. Starting to come into first alternate plumage.

Marsh Sandpiper, first-winter plumage.

Northern Lapwing. A flock of about ten birds, all juveniles, currently staying in the area.

Swinhoe's White Wagtail, first-winter plumage. Two birds were among a flock of about twenty White Wagtails.

A different individual from the one above — Swinhoe's White Wagtail, first-winter plumage.

White Wagtail (leucopsis), adult male.

White Wagtail, adult male.

A wintering male European Stonechat.

A Common Starling associating with Common Mynas.

The Common Mynas were in a flock of a dozen or so birds. They were eating Ficus (gajumaru) berries.

Naumann's Thrush, adult. The tail feathers were almost completely missing.

Dusky Thrush, first-winter.

Blue Rock Thrush, male, first-winter.