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

The pair had been incubating, but it appears the eggs fell into the sea.

The first Wood Sandpiper of the season, an adult. Still largely in breeding plumage.

Also the first Black-winged Stilt of the season. An adult male.

Another individual was in the adjacent paddy field.

This one appeared the following day — a different bird. An adult female.

A Common Greenshank in late breeding plumage, bill open as if feeling the heat.

A flock of eight Common Greenshanks in a different paddy from the bird above. Some individuals were beginning to show winter plumage.

Wood Sandpiper turnover seems high, but the numbers are holding steady.

The Sanderlings at the river mouth have completely moulted into winter plumage.

Greater Sand Plover in winter plumage (right) and Grey-tailed Tattler in winter plumage.

A male Greater Painted-snipe threatening a Common Moorhen. I thought there might be chicks nearby, but apparently not. What beautiful plumage, though. ^^

A pair of Black-naped Terns. They looked as though they were about to lay.

A Black-naped Tern chick (right) and its parent.

A Black-naped Tern that came to bathe.

A Black-naped Tern colony. In the right half of the frame, two chicks of roughly the same age are visible.

A small flock of Little Terns. The individual at lower right is a fledged Little Tern chick, already beginning to moult into first-winter plumage.

A banded Crested Serpent Eagle on a narrow lane in the village. I think it's a male, but I have no idea whose bird it is or where it came from.

A Black-naped Tern incubating. At other nests, chicks have already hatched and grown considerably.

Black-naped Terns, Roseate Terns, and Little Terns are flying, but they are distant.

Bathing Black-naped Terns and Roseate Terns. The Black-naped Tern is second from the right; all others are Roseate Terns.