A daily record.
Featuring photos of wild birds and nature, mainly from Okinawa Main Island and Ishigaki Island

An Oriental Pratincole with eyes half closed, looking tired.

Bill half open — presumably from the heat.

This one is worn out too. The pratincole facing away on the left also has its head feathers raised, in full tired mode.

I wonder whether these Oriental Pratincoles will push on even further south from here.

This Oriental Pratincole was dozing off from time to time.

A Grey-faced Buzzard — natural predator of the Barred Buttonquail. Three Grey-faced Buzzards were spotted on Ikei Island that day.

Rental cars passed back and forth beneath this Grey-faced Buzzard, but it didn't seem to mind.

This one may already have been full — when a large grasshopper flew up in the field right in front of it, the bird just watched.

Grey-faced Buzzard and Brown-eared Bulbul.

The Barred Buttonquails were foraging in the shade of trees to stay out of the Grey-faced Buzzard's sight. The male is in the foreground; the female can be seen faintly in the background.