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

Common Redshank, first-summer plumage.

Greater Sand Plover, first-summer plumage.

Also Greater Sand Plover, first-summer plumage. Common Greenshank behind.

Wood Sandpiper, first-summer plumage.

The number of Black-winged Stilts keeps going up and down.

White-winged Tern moulting into summer plumage.

A flock of Little Terns came to bathe at the river mouth.

A female Ryukyu Scops Owl.

A male Ryukyu Scops Owl.

A male Ryukyu Scops Owl. The female still appeared to be inside the tree hollow.

A Ryukyu Scops Owl, several days after fledging and now flying freely about.

A juvenile Ryukyu Night Heron with down still remaining on the crown as a vestige of its chick days.

A this-year's Purple Heron. Its hunting skills still seem to have a long way to go.

A Common Moorhen parent and chick.

A Ruddy Kingfisher raising chicks. When a crow approached the nest it would drive it away.

A Cattle Egret with a broken right wing. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to ever fly again.

The second chick to fledge.

Photographed just a few minutes after fledging — looking quite dignified already.

Before fledging, it would poke its head out and pull it back in, as if taking in the outside world for the first time.

Pale-capped Pigeon, adult male.

Pale-capped Pigeons are often found among flocks of Oriental Turtle-Doves, but this time it was Pale-capped Pigeons only.

First Long-toed Stint of the season. Late summer plumage.

Wood Sandpipers are increasing in number too. Probably first-summer plumage.

Common Greenshank, winter plumage.

Zitting Cisticola juvenile. Three birds, apparently siblings, were moving around together.

Still showing a lot of juvenile features.

The classic Zitting Cisticola perched shot. ^^

There are two Eurasian Coots summering here. Summering individuals have been recorded on Okinawa Island for several years now, and birds staying through the summer have started appearing on Ishigaki Island as well.