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

A juvenile Ryukyu Scops Owl that apparently fledged last night. Downy feathers still remain.

It was asleep most of the time. This shot was taken with a friend's α1 II on loan. Little difference from the α1, but the image stabilisation was noticeably effective.

A parent bird keeping watch nearby. If a crow or similar approached, it would scramble immediately to defend its chick.

By the fifth day of its stay, wariness had faded. It stopped flushing even when tractors and kei trucks passed by.

The metallic sheen of the feathers catches the light beautifully.

Wood Sandpipers that began arriving a few days ago have increased rapidly. Flocks are showing up in rice paddies here and there. Still all adults.

Little Ringed Plovers are also building in numbers. Again, a flock made up entirely of adults.

A fledgling Little Tern. The juvenile plumage is still very much in evidence, and the tail feathers are short.

An adult Little Tern. Around four family groups had come to a rice paddy to bathe.

The Ruddy Kingfishers appear to have mostly finished raising their young.