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

A Solitary Snipe at rest. It's too wary for me to get any closer. What a fine bird, though.

A Solitary Snipe taking a break in light rain.

Northern Lapwings can be found in paddy fields here and there.

Just a single Brambling. I wonder if it got separated from its flock and can't continue its migration.

A Japanese Scops Owl appeared just five minutes after I arrived at the spot.

The fourth Japanese Scops Owl I encountered was quite a friendly individual.

Same individual as above. A farewell wink.

Ryukyu Scops Owl. One feather is sticking out from the head. ^^;

Adult female Bull-headed Shrike. Same build as the male I found last time.

It was catching grasshoppers and lardering them. Like the male last time, this shrike makes larders quite frequently. I have never seen a Brown Shrike lardering.

Pinning down a grasshopper caught in its foot. The head is overall rufous-brown.

Rear view. The back is uniformly rufous-brown as well.

The Tundra Bean Geese moved to a different paddy. The Swan Geese that had been with them also moved to a different paddy.

The two on the left are Tundra Beans Geese and the four on the right are Swan Geese.

A Tundra Bean Goose taking flight.

A Crested Serpent Eagle is faintly visible behind the flying Tundra Bean Geese. Startled by it, the Tundra Bean Geese never returned to the same paddy field.

Four Swan Geese watching two Tundra Bean Geese fly away.