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

Both birds are adult male Garganey. Still in non-breeding plumage, so none of that striking pattern yet.

Eurasian Teal, juvenile male. Moulting from juvenile into first breeding plumage — scapulars and flanks are starting to show breeding feathers.

Eurasian Teal, juvenile male.

Eurasian Teal, adult female.

A lone Buff-bellied Pipit.

A Red-throated Pipit keeping a wary eye on me. I was observing from quite a distance, but it was very on edge.

Red-throated Pipit at the water's edge, trying to pick off a small insect stuck to the underside of its tail.

Yellow Wagtail (taivana), juvenile. It can be distinguished from the (Yellow) Wagtail by the supercilium width and other features.

A juvenile (Yellow-browed) Eastern Yellow Wagtail.

Pheasant-tailed Jacana moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage. This year there have been so many Pheasant-tailed Jacanas I'm getting tired of them. ^^;

Wood Sandpiper, adult.

Common Redshank (right) and Marsh Sandpiper, adult winter plumage.

Common Greenshank, adult.

Black-winged Stilt, first-winter plumage.

A Chestnut-breasted Bunting perched on a power line.

A Chestnut-breasted Bunting constantly looking around — perhaps sensing a raptor nearby.

A juvenile Rosy Starling. It perched on the power line in front of the roost I found yesterday.

A Purple Heron swallowing a large turtle (probably a softshell) whole. I wonder if it can digest the shell too.

A Crested Serpent Eagle waiting for land crabs nesting in the paddy bund to emerge.