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

Red-necked Stint moulting from summer to winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint moulting from summer to winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint moulting from summer to winter plumage. This one had a sleepy look about it.

Red-necked Stint moulting from summer to winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint adult, nearly in full winter plumage.

All adults so far — no juveniles have appeared yet.

Marsh Sandpiper juvenile, moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage.

Common Greenshank juvenile.

Marsh Sandpiper juvenile (foreground) and an adult in the process of moulting into winter plumage.

The first Dunlin of the season was a juvenile, moulting into first-winter plumage.

Common Sandpiper moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage. First juvenile confirmed this season.

Long-toed Stint in juvenile plumage.

Curlew Sandpiper, summer to winter plumage. Presumed male.

Also molting from summer to winter plumage. Compared to the individual above, the reddish tones are weaker — perhaps a female.

Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.

The body looks compact, but this is a Swinhoe's Snipe. Also a juvenile.

Little Ringed Plover, male. Late summer plumage.

A few winter feathers are showing, but this Marsh Sandpiper is still mostly in juvenile plumage.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail (leucopsis), adult winter plumage.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail (leucopsis), juvenile.

Purple Heron, juvenile.

Ruddy Kingfisher, female. Compared to the fresh, beautiful look at the start of the breeding season, she is quite worn and ragged now.

This individual got as far as laying eggs, but in the end they never hatched and the breeding attempt this season failed.

I had been watching from the burrow-digging stage, so we have become familiar with each other — she doesn't flush even at three metres.

She will likely disappear before long, so this is probably the last chance to see the Ruddy Kingfishers on Ishigaki Island for the season.