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

A male Garganey that turned up at Sankakuike.

It was sleeping most of the time. It looked like it was recovering from the fatigue of migration.

There was also a male Garganey in the channel that feeds into Sankaku Pond.

The water was barely 10 centimetres deep, but it was feeding away diligently.

All the male Common Teal that had been wintering at Sankaku Pond were gone; only a few females remained.

The Little Egret was going through the motions of bringing twigs and building a nest.

A Red-throated Pipit that has moulted into beautiful breeding plumage.

This one is also almost fully in breeding plumage.

Pacific Golden Plovers are still in winter dress. Among a flock of about 30, not a single bird had changed into breeding plumage. Perhaps from next month we'll start to see some in their beautiful breeding plumage mixed in.

A male Kentish Plover.

A female Kentish Plover. This year too, around the Golden Week holidays in May, we should be able to see her with adorable chicks in tow. ^^

A male Brown Shrike transitioning from first-winter to first-summer plumage.

It regurgitated a pellet.

Grey-faced Buzzards in farmland have little wariness of people; if you shoot from inside a car, they won't fly off.

A male Grey-faced Buzzard. It spotted prey and dropped to the ground, but seemed to lose it in the grass and spent a while walking around searching.

A female Grey-faced Buzzard.

Grey-headed Lapwing, first-winter plumage. The eye colour is dark and dull compared to the vivid red of adults.

Will the black breast-band seen on adults appear from here on?

A male Zitting Cisticola. It was flying back and forth over the fields, trading territorial calls with a neighbouring male.

A flock of about 60 cormorants.

There are still plenty of Eurasian Wigeons around.

A Northern Shoveler startled into flight by a surfer.

The white morph Pacific Reef Heron.

The dark morph Pacific Reef Heron.

It caught a small insect from the soil in a field.

The black markings on the breast are still patchy.

It is also in the process of changing into breeding plumage.