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

Over the week it stayed, it gradually lost its wariness of people and was relaxed about foraging in the open.

I was also able to get a good look at the Pheasant-tailed Jacana's characteristically large feet.

A Crested Serpent Eagle that came close to the Pheasant-tailed Jacana. This is the individual that breeds in the area closest to town.

This is the Crested Serpent Eagle that turns up near my house. It appeared to have an injury to its right eye.

Lots of Roseate Terns on the rocky reef where Black-naped Terns always form their breeding colony.

This reef is not often used, but since the reef above is overflowing, there are also plenty of Roseate Terns here along with a few Black-naped Terns.

A recently fledged Pacific Reef Heron still has down feathers on its head. It was still being fed by a parent.

A male Large Hawk-Cuckoo calling near the top of a casuarina tree. You can hear them calling all over Ishigaki Island, so use this kind of image to guide your search.

A fledgling Grey Nightjar — just out of the nest.

All three chicks fledged safely over two days.

The male parent keeping watch over the chicks.