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

A textbook juvenile Pin-tailed Snipe. If they were all like this one, there'd be no hesitation in the field.

Same individual as above.

Believe it or not, this is a Pin-tailed Snipe. The facial expression made me think Pin-tailed, but everything else was just too Swinhoe's…. ^^;

Same individual as above.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Juvenile Common Snipe.

Also a juvenile Common Snipe. A pale-type bird, and a beautiful one.

A juvenile Common Snipe sunbathing.

A juvenile Common Snipe bathing.

A juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Adult Forest Wagtail. The central tail feathers are old and badly worn.

This individual showed little wariness and came quite close.

It caught a cockroach on the forest floor.

It was moving busily along a dim forest track.

Forest Wagtails are especially charming among the wagtails.

The 'T' mark on the breast is conspicuous.

When a vehicle passed, it would startle and perch on a branch.

Perhaps because the Forest Wagtail is adapted to dark environments, its eyes seem larger than those of other wagtails. That's another reason it looks so endearing.