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

Adult Swan Goose. No white at the base of the bill — perhaps a young bird?

Five Swan Geese. They were grazing on grass.

Swan Goose, adult. Sex unknown.

It let its guard down completely and dozed off.

Common Pochard, adult male in breeding plumage.

Northern Pintail, adult. Transitioning from eclipse to breeding plumage.

A Tufted Duck (right) and a Northern Pintail that stayed behind even as the wary Spot-billed Duck flock took flight.

Five Black-faced Spoonbills at two spots in the paddies in the same area. This is a young individual.

A hand-tame Oriental Scops Owl from the neighbourhood.

A Brown Hawk-Owl with distinctive irises. I feel like I've seen this individual somewhere before, but I can't place it.

Ryukyu Balanophora emerging from the forest floor.

It was in full bloom across the entire floor of the dark forest.

Flowers covered in ants were conspicuous — perhaps ants or cockroaches serve as pollinators?

Ryukyu Balanophora with a texture that looks like it would taste good. It's not poisonous, right?

First-winter White Wagtail with a beautiful bluish-grey back and grey rump — the Siberian form.

First-winter East Asian White Wagtail.

First-winter White Wagtail (leucopsis).

Male Crimson Dove. Transitioning from juvenile to first-winter plumage.

Same individual as above. From the opposite side.

There was just one mixed in among a dozen or so Oriental Turtle Doves.

Ducks in the waterway: Eurasian Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, and Northern Shoveler.

Male Black-winged Kite.

Female Black-winged Kite.

Female juvenile Common Kestrel.