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

A Crested Serpent Eagle pouncing on prey.

A Crested Serpent Eagle flying low toward its prey.

The pair of the individual above.

The Crested Serpent Eagle breeding season has begun, and activity is picking up. Their calls are audible back and forth all around.

Crested Serpent Eagle, juvenile. The 16th individual this season.

Purple Heron, juvenile. This one was feisty enough to drive off an adult.

Javan Pond Heron, adult. This individual was still a juvenile up until last year, so it is in its second year.

A long-staying Javan Pond Heron. On alert for a Peregrine Falcon.

Also a long-staying Chinese Pond Heron.

Spotted Redshank, first-winter. I'd love for it to stay until it turns black.

Common Redshank, first-winter.

More than ten Common Snipe in the same paddy field.

Dunlin in a flock of eight.

White-shouldered Starling. The top bird is male; the two below are female.

Little Bunting, arriving in good numbers this season.

In the rain, it had come down to the ground and was sitting still.

A Yellow-browed Warbler foraging as it moves busily from branch to branch.

What is the prey? It's too small to tell clearly, but it looked like it was eating some kind of insect, perhaps aphids.

It becomes camouflaged when it moves into the leucaena leaves.

In the undergrowth, a Japanese Bush Warbler. It was having a hard time swallowing a stick insect.

I think several subspecies of Japanese Bush Warbler are visiting, including Sakhalin Bush Warbler and Korean Bush Warbler. Is this one just a plain Japanese Bush Warbler?

Female Daurian Redstart. It seems females are the majority of the Daurian Redstarts remaining on Ishigaki Island.