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

Garganey, juvenile male.

It was at some distance, and the grass in the foreground got in the way, making observation difficult.

Eurasian Teal, male. Moulting from eclipse into breeding plumage.

Eurasian Wigeon, male juvenile.

Tufted Duck, eclipse.

Pheasant-tailed Jacana, juvenile. Moulting into first-winter plumage.

Normally juveniles have dark irises and adults have pale ones, but in the Pheasant-tailed Jacana it is the reverse — juveniles have bright yellow eyes and adults have dark ones.

Pheasant-tailed Jacana, head-on. So slender!!

I also managed to photograph the Pheasant-tailed Jacana's long toes. The hind claw in particular is very long.

A Black-faced Spoonbill suddenly dropped into the rice paddy while I was watching a Pheasant-tailed Jacana.

Black-faced Spoonbill and Medium Egret.

A juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper in wintering mode.

Dunlin in winter plumage, wintering in good numbers — several dozen birds.

A juvenile Peregrine Falcon with beautiful feather edges. The white on the head looks a bit like Barbary Falcon, but the breast isn't pale, so probably a regular Peregrine.

When I first spotted it, it was perched on a rice paddy bund.

If it were a Barbary Falcon the streaking on the breast and belly would be brown, and if a Sooty Falcon the whole bird would be yellowish-brown, so I think it's a juvenile Peregrine.

Common Kestrel, first-winter male.