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

Five Swan Geese. They are moving back and forth among several rice paddies.

Nankeen Night Heron, moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage.

A young Black-faced Spoonbill. This one is also coming up on nearly a month's stay.

Purple Heron, adult. Purple Herons — adults and juveniles alike — are encountered fairly often.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, first-winter plumage.

White Wagtail (leucopsis), first-winter male.

White Wagtail, first-winter male.

White Wagtail (leucopsis), first-winter male.

(Yellow-browed) Eastern Yellow Wagtail, adult winter plumage.

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

Grey Wagtail, adult winter plumage.

Red-throated Pipits are also wintering here in good numbers.

The Eurasian Skylark is still lingering. It has already been a month since its arrival in November. Is it planning to stay through until spring?

A European Greenfinch, photographed closer than the other day.

A different individual from the one above.

The European Greenfinches appeared to be picking up grass seeds while getting rained on.

Are all European Greenfinches this wary? I'd like to get a shot on a sunny day.

The first Eurasian Hoopoe of the season. It was probing its bill into the ground to catch insects.

A Eurasian Hoopoe perched in a tree in light rain.

When I first found it, it was perched on a distant branch.

A close-up of the Eurasian Hoopoe at its nearest approach.

A dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzard. This season a Peregrine Falcon is also wintering in the same area.

A distant adult Crested Serpent Eagle in the rain.

Brown Shrike, first-winter.

This individual landed on a branch right in front of me.

Adult female Dusky Thrush. Juvenile Dusky Thrushes rarely make it to Ishigaki Island.

Around 40 Great Cormorants had gathered at a small settling pond. I searched for Pelagic Cormorant, which is rare in Okinawa, but found none.