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

Pheasant-tailed Jacana, juvenile — present since last month.

When a raptor passed overhead, it became noticeably more alert.

Chinese Pond Heron, winter plumage.

A different individual. Also a Chinese Pond Heron in winter plumage. It was catching dragonflies.

A large flock of Northern Lapwings arrived a few days ago and is being seen all over the island.

I had recorded Northern Pintail in mid-last month, but this is my first photo of the season.

A male Northern Shoveler.

A female Eurasian Wigeon.

Two Eurasian Teal at the coast.

White-winged Tern, adult winter plumage.

Pin-tailed Snipe, juvenile. A particularly wary individual.

My first Swinhoe's Snipe in a while.

Two Common Snipe, both juveniles.

These two are also Common Snipe.

Common Snipe, juvenile. Almost all of them were Common Snipe.

Marsh Sandpiper, first-winter.

Long-toed Stint, first-winter.

Long-toed Stint, late juvenile plumage.

Temminck's Stint, winter plumage.

Temminck's Stint, juvenile.

Dunlin, first-winter.

The Dunlin were in a flock of around ten birds.

Common Greenshank on the coast.

Grey Plover, adult winter plumage.

Little Ringed Plover, winter plumage.

Also Little Ringed Plover, winter plumage.

House Sparrow, female. It was in a pineapple field.

House Sparrow (top) and Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

Yellow Wagtail (Yellow-browed) male, winter plumage. It tends to be mistaken for summer plumage, but this is winter plumage.

Yellow Wagtail (Yellow-browed), first-winter plumage.

Yellow Wagtail (Yellow-browed), first-winter plumage.

Also Yellow Wagtail (Yellow-browed), first-winter plumage.

White Wagtail, male, first-winter plumage.

Same individual as above.

Red-throated Pipit moulting from summer to winter plumage.

Red-throated Pipit, juvenile.

Red-throated Pipit moulting from summer to winter plumage.

Red-throated Pipit, juvenile.

Red-throated Pipit, adult. In transition from summer to winter plumage.

Pheasant-tailed Jacana moulting from juvenile plumage into first-winter plumage.

This individual wasn't very wary and came right up close.

Crested Serpent Eagle perched on a farm sprinkler.

There were two Grey-faced Buzzard juveniles.

Falcated Duck, rare on Ishigaki-jima. Moulting from eclipse into breeding plumage.

First White Wagtail of the season. Transitioning from juvenile to 1st-winter plumage.

From the back.

Greater White-fronted Goose, juvenile.

It starts moving around towards evening.

It had moved into a paddy with leftover rice and was feeding on the grain.

Black-tailed Godwit and Long-billed Dowitcher. Both juveniles.

It was eating small gastropods.

Pacific Golden Plover, juvenile. Seemed unsettled, with raptors becoming more frequent.

Yellow Bittern this season — many encounters. All juveniles.

Common Snipe, juvenile. Snipe other than Common Snipe have all but disappeared now, which feels lonely.

There was a dead Common Snipe juvenile. Black-winged Kite appears around here often, so it may have fallen prey to one.

This one is a dead Brown Hawk-Owl found in a residential area near my workplace. Given the location, I believe it was a migrant.

Little Swift nest. Several nearby trees had been cut down from the roots. Illegal, of course. Probably the work of someone trying to photograph the nest. Some guides are just awful… ^^;