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

Pin-tailed Snipe. The scapulars and other feathers are changing into breeding plumage.

This Pin-tailed Snipe is also in the process of transitioning into breeding plumage.

A typical Pin-tailed Snipe.

Swinhoe's Snipe also appears to be well into its moult.

This one is a Pin-tailed Snipe.

This one is a Pin-tailed Snipe too.

This one is also a Pin-tailed Snipe.

A Swinhoe's Snipe lit by the evening sun.

This one turned out to be a Swinhoe's Snipe as well.

When I first spotted it the Broad-billed Sandpiper was at the far end of the rice paddy, but it gradually worked its way closer.

Sharp-tailed Sandpipers seen in groups ranging from around ten birds down to just a few.

Long-toed Stints were at various stages of moult — some fully in breeding plumage, others still largely in winter plumage.

Three Whimbrel appeared at the river mouth.

A pair of Greater Painted-snipe. Some males were already accompanied by chicks.

A male Ryukyu Bittern. It appeared right in front of me while I was watching snipe.

This male Ryukyu Bittern is showing breeding plumage.

White-breasted Waterhen were largely seen moving in pairs.

Ruddy Kingfisher at the start of the breeding season. Every individual in the park shows no wariness whatsoever….

Crested Serpent Eagle on the signboard pointing toward Omoto hamlet.

Black-bellied Terns are wheeling over rice paddies here and there.

I came across 2 Red-throated Pipits — unusual for this time of year.

Eastern Yellow Wagtails were gathering in large flocks on farmland.