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

Male Tufted Duck.

First-year female Tufted Duck.

A sleeping male Mallard.

A few Northern Pintails flew in.

Northern Shoveler, male.

Northern Shoveler, juvenile male.

Eurasian Wigeon.

Pied Avocet, first-winter.

Long-toed Stint, winter plumage.

Marsh Sandpiper, winter plumage.

Common Redshank.

Green Sandpiper, first-winter.

Common Snipe, first-winter.

Northern Lapwing, juvenile.

Little Ringed Plover, first-winter.

Rustic Bunting preening.

Two Rustic Buntings.

The Rustic Buntings were feeding on rice in a harvested paddy field.

Four Japanese Waxwings. They were eating Schefflera berries.

Dusky Thrushes have been increasing in the farmland and paddies. They will likely spread out across the island from here.

Multiple Siberian Stonechats staying on.

Siberian Stonechats at a different location. All females.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, first-winter. White Wagtails have finally started to increase as well.

Javan Pond Heron in winter plumage.

Same individual as above. It has been staying for a long time.

Black-crowned Night Heron adult.

A Black-crowned Night Heron at an elementary school.

A juvenile Ryukyu Striated Heron in a drainage channel.

A juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle fleeing after being startled by a Common Kestrel.

The frame before the photo above. It is being mobbed by a juvenile Common Kestrel.

Crested Serpent Eagle adult.

A male Pale-capped Pigeon. Too spooked by raptors to come down from the tree.