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

First Grey-tailed Tattler juveniles of the season. All five birds in the flock were juveniles.

Both birds are Greater Painted-snipe, first-winter females.

Also a Greater Painted-snipe, first-winter female.

Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile.

Also a Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile.

Same individual as above.

Swinhoe's Snipe adult, moulting into non-breeding plumage.

Swinhoe's Snipe, adult. The scapulars have moulted into winter plumage. Some of the tertials have been shed.

Red-necked Stint, adult. Moulting into winter plumage.

Common Sandpiper, juvenile.

While I was watching a Eastern Yellow Wagtail, an adult Purple Heron flew in.

A flock of around 200 Eastern Cattle Egrets arrived.

The Ruddy Kingfisher in my neighbourhood. I say hello to this individual every morning before heading to the office. ^^ The head looked quite tatty a few days ago, but the moult there seems to be done now.

The primaries still appear to be old feathers. Will it suspend moult here before continuing its migration?

Crested Serpent Eagle, adult. It was hunting from a windbreak with a clear view over the paddies.

Same individual as above.

This one was hunting from a sprinkler.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, adult female, winter plumage. (leucopsis)

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, adult male, winter plumage. (leucopsis)

I thought it was a Siberian Yellow Wagtail, but it turned out to be a leucopsis Eastern Yellow Wagtail… The supercilium had simply disappeared because the bird was soaked in rain….