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

A Red-throated Pipit that has moulted into beautiful breeding plumage.

This one is also almost fully in breeding plumage.

Pacific Golden Plovers are still in winter dress. Among a flock of about 30, not a single bird had changed into breeding plumage. Perhaps from next month we'll start to see some in their beautiful breeding plumage mixed in.

A male Kentish Plover.

A female Kentish Plover. This year too, around the Golden Week holidays in May, we should be able to see her with adorable chicks in tow. ^^

A male Garganey that turned up at Sankakuike.

It was sleeping most of the time. It looked like it was recovering from the fatigue of migration.

There was also a male Garganey in the channel that feeds into Sankaku Pond.

The water was barely 10 centimetres deep, but it was feeding away diligently.

All the male Common Teal that had been wintering at Sankaku Pond were gone; only a few females remained.

The Little Egret was going through the motions of bringing twigs and building a nest.