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

A male Ruddy Kingfisher. I believe this is summer plumage, but I can't really tell the difference…

The female paired with the male above. When the male called from deep in the bushes, she was bobbing her tail up and down.

The Ruddy Kingfisher's light-blue rump feathers are beautiful.

This is the male Ruddy Kingfisher. Partly due to the light, the blue on his rump looked paler than on the female above.

It appears to have mostly moulted into summer plumage, but the primaries seem not yet.

A juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle. An individual that is a little too used to people — slightly worrying.

The same individual as above. It was walking as if favouring its right foot. Had it been injured?

A Black-winged Kite that failed to breed. According to someone who observes them daily, there was an irresponsible person who approached the nest tree on foot.

In the evening, a Black-winged Kite crossing over a sugarcane field.

A Grey-faced Buzzard that hasn't migrated yet. Last year's birds don't take part in breeding, so perhaps they're in no hurry?

A Common Kestrel in a field in the evening.

A flock of (Yellow-browed) Eastern Yellow Wagtails that came down into a field.

A Greater Sand Plover in the middle.

Another Greater Sand Plover. Its moult into summer plumage is slightly more advanced than the individual above.

It's a marginal call, but Greater Sand Plover.

Lesser Sand Plover and Red-necked Stint. Among the stints there are both winter-plumage and summer-plumage individuals.

A sleeping Lesser Sand Plover.

Grey-tailed Tattler and Lesser Sand Plover.

Kentish Plover moulting into summer plumage.

Common Greenshank in winter plumage.

While the other sandpipers and plovers were sleeping, a flock of Ruddy Turnstones moved about actively, searching for prey.

A Ruddy Turnstone caught a small earthworm-like creature.

The Red-necked Stints show a rich variety, ranging from individuals in full winter plumage to those nearly in full summer plumage.

A white-morph Pacific Reef Heron was flying offshore.

A female Ruddy Kingfisher.

An exceptionally unwary individual — I could shoot to my heart's content. ^^

While waiting in the car, a beautiful Ruddy Kingfisher landed on a branch right in front of me!!

White-breasted Waterhen — I see them often enough, but they rarely let me get a decent photo.

Juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle inside a ranch. The bokeh from the 200–600 is really rough, though… ^^;

A young Purple Heron.

A Malayan Night Heron foraging along the prefectural road.

Adult male White-faced Wagtail.

It was keeping an eye on the sky above.

Zitting Cisticolas in breeding season are constantly flying over the grassland, calling away.

First-summer male Brown Shrike.

A female Brown Shrike.