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

A first-winter Pied Avocet, arriving alone.

This shrike was very wary, and I only just managed a shot of it perched at a distance. A type without white wing patches.

Chinese Pond Heron (right) and Purple Heron.

Medium Egret. Great Egrets rarely make it to Okinawa or Ishigaki Island.

Cattle Egret. Just a hint of breeding plumage coming in.

Ducks resting in a waterway. Common Teal and Eurasian Wigeon make up the majority.

Common Redshank, first-winter. A few birds were gathered in the usual spot.

Black-winged Stilt, female, first-winter.

Common Snipe in the distance. Around five birds were flocking together.

Crested Serpent Eagle, juvenile. Facing its first winter with little food, it seems a bit listless.

When frogs and other creatures were turned up from the soil during rice paddy puddling, it would swoop down and catch them.

Caught a frog. Prey this size gets swallowed whole.

Spotted prey and headed out again.

A female Crested Serpent Eagle known as "Point." She gets her name from a blemish on her right eye. Calling back and forth with her paired male.

The male paired with the 'point' bird above. Calling back and forth to each other.

A male Daurian Redstart beside the Point couple. It knows full well that the Crested Serpent Eagle won't attack.

A rare two-shot of a Crested Serpent Eagle and a Tundra Swan.

A Crested Serpent Eagle that caught a mouse in a meadow being mowed.

A Large-billed Crow came to try to steal it. ^^;