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

A Javan Pond Heron with zero wariness. It has now been staying for over a week.

It was walking along the paddy bank catching mole crickets and grasshoppers.

Ryukyu Cinnamon Bittern, adult male. It popped up while I was watching snipe.

Ryukyu Cinnamon Bittern, juvenile. Moult is progressing.

Purple Heron, juvenile. Moult is also progressing here.

White-winged Tern, winter plumage. It was with a few Black-bellied Terns.

Same individual as above. Four old primaries remain.

Black-bellied Tern, juvenile. It was on its own.

Long-billed Dowitcher, juvenile. It startled every time a farmer's light truck passed.

When I watched quietly, it relaxed and began feeding.

Broad-billed Sandpiper, juvenile. This individual disappeared quickly.

A Broad-billed Sandpiper from a different area than the one above. Also a juvenile.

Thought to be the same individual as the one above.

A newly arrived Broad-billed Sandpiper. It was moving around together with the individual above.

Ruff, adult male. Traces of breeding plumage remain.

Same individual as above, but photographed two days earlier.

Red-necked Stint, juvenile.

Long-toed Stints gradually increasing in number.

Least Sandpiper, winter plumage.

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper transitioning from breeding to winter plumage.

Common Redshank, first-winter plumage.

Whimbrel, juvenile. It appeared to have a slight leg injury.

Common Greenshank, first-winter plumage.

Pin-tailed Snipe, juvenile, in flight.

Same individual as above. Flight shots of snipe are always a treat.

Same individual as above.

A plump, well-fattened Swinhoe's Snipe. Laying on fat for migration.

Pin-tailed Snipe, adult.

Same individual as above.

A juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe on a distant bank.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Juvenile Common Snipe (far right), adult Common Snipe (near right), and Common Redshank.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Adult Swinhoe's Snipe.

Adult Common Snipe.

Same individual as above. Startled by a Whiskered Tern.

Adult Swinhoe's Snipe.

Adult Swinhoe's Snipe.

Common Snipe (foreground) and Swinhoe's Snipe.

Quite distant, but a juvenile Pin-tailed Snipe.

Same individual as above.

Adult Pin-tailed Snipe.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Same individual as above.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Same individual as above.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Same individual as above.

Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.

Same individual as above.

Pin-tailed Snipe, juvenile.

Same individual as above.

The Pin-tailed Snipe in the background is the same individual as above; the one in the foreground is a Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile.

Swinhoe's Snipe, adult.

Swinhoe's Snipe, adult.

Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.

Same individual as above.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.