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

A juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle. It will remain in full juvenile plumage until next spring.

A juvenile Common Kestrel, moulting into first-winter plumage. This individual showed no inclination to flee.

An adult male Peregrine Falcon. It was distant, in the rain…

White Wagtail (leucopsis), first-winter.

The same individual as above, from the front.

An individual likely to be Mekong Wagtail. Female, first-winter. Separating first-winter leucopsis, ocularis, and baicalensis White Wagtails is tricky.

Yellow Wagtail (taivana), first-winter.

White Wagtail, first-winter.

Red-throated Pipit, adult. Mid-moult from breeding to winter plumage.

Buff-bellied Pipit, winter plumage.

Eurasian Skylark, first-winter.

A different individual from the one above. Eurasian Skylark, first-winter.

A juvenile Ryukyu Striated Heron appeared right in front of me in the evening.

Siberian Rubythroat, adult male, winter plumage. Last year I found one at the dam lakeside; this time it's by a riverside. Perhaps Siberian Rubythroats prefer to be near water.

A Siberian Rubythroat was moving through the secondary woodland, calling with a low "gug-gug."

I wanted to watch it for longer, but it kept moving through the shrubs and undergrowth.

Brambling, male, winter plumage.

A dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzard that first appeared as a juvenile in autumn 2018, now returning for the third consecutive year.

The dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzards are all quite wary, including the individual from the Okinawa main island.

A Eastern Marsh Harrier being chased by a Eurasian Sparrowhawk.

Yellow Bittern, juvenile. An individual with little wariness.

Ryukyu Minivet — wait, Cinnamon Bittern, juvenile. This one was also not particularly wary.

Chinese Pond Heron, first-winter.

A Common Snipe caught off guard for a moment, out in a dry spot.