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

A Crested Serpent Eagle chick, estimated to be around 20 days post-hatching.

Juvenile feathers are beginning to show through the down around the shoulders.

A Javan Pond Heron in winter plumage that has already been present for several days.

Javan Pond Heron (left) and Intermediate Egret. Seeing the two side by side really shows how small the Javan Pond Heron is. Rain has started to fall.

The rain that had begun grew heavier, and the wind started rocking the car I was sitting in so violently that the Javan Pond Heron finally took flight.

Ruddy-breasted Crake. Adult female, late summer plumage.

When I found it the other day it was hidden among flattened, abandoned rice stalks and I could barely get any shots, but today for some reason it was walking along a farm track.

Common Redshank. The individual on the left is nearly in first-winter plumage; the one on the right is nearly in juvenile plumage.

Four Common Greenshanks. All adults, transitioning from summer to winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint, adult. A little winter plumage is just beginning to show.

Common Snipe adult. In moult to non-breeding plumage.

Also a Common Snipe adult. Preening after bathing.

Checked the flank feathers just to be sure.

Also checked the tail feathers.

Another Common Snipe adult. Would love to see some juveniles soon. It froze up because I got too close. ^^;

A Common Snipe probing the bank. The tail looks remarkably short on this individual — did something happen to it?

First Ruff of the season. It was a juvenile female. Given the location, it may be the same individual I was told about two days ago but missed.

Long-toed Stint. A juvenile of the less rufous type.

Also a juvenile. Juveniles have been turning up more frequently lately.

This one is a Long-toed Stint adult. Late breeding plumage, but a few non-breeding feathers are already visible.

Greater Painted-snipe male.

Common Greenshank adult. In the process of changing from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

Green Sandpiper in late breeding plumage. Numbers have been picking up over the past week or so.

Black-winged Stilt. Still showing a lot of juvenile plumage.

Common Redshank juvenile.

Pacific Golden Plover moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage. Among a flock of about ten, this individual was the most advanced in moult.

Little Ringed Plover. Mid-moult into winter plumage.

Common Snipe adult. Moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage. The scapulars have already changed to winter feathers.

Pacific Golden Plover adult. In the process of changing from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

Long-toed Stint moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

A White-winged Tern that caught a small prey item in a rice paddy.

The body looks almost entirely in summer plumage, but a little winter plumage is beginning to show on the belly. The flight feathers have moulted, with the exception of the outermost one primary feather remaining.

Resting after flying around over the rice paddies — perhaps tired out.