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

A juvenile male Common Kestrel with a captured Eastern Yellow Wagtail.

It was eating its prey while soaring.

Juvenile Common Teal.

The Javan Pond Heron is on an extended stay. Showing no wariness at all, it is delighting visiting birders from off-island.

A Greater Painted-snipe with chicks — four of them in tow.

Marsh Sandpiper moving into winter plumage.

Two juvenile Marsh Sandpipers transitioning into first-winter plumage.

Juvenile Long-toed Stint.

Adult Red-necked Stint moulting into winter plumage.

Juvenile Pin-tailed Snipe.

Same individual as above.

Same individual as above.

Same individual as above.

I tried to photograph both birds in flight at the same time, and this happened… Same individual as above.

Swinhoe's Snipe, juvenile.

Same individual as above.

Black-winged Kite, adult. Sex unknown.

In the late afternoon sun, the red eyes shine all the more brilliantly.

At this time of year an east wind blows in the evening, so hovering birds face away from me — but when a Black-winged Kite moves off it wheels around and shows its back.

The Black-winged Kite's hunting didn't seem to be going well that day.

Red-rumped Swallow, adult.

Barn Swallow, adult.

Barn Swallow, juvenile.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, female, winter plumage.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, first-winter plumage.