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

A Crested Serpent Eagle charging in when prey is flushed during pasture mowing.

When it finishes eating, it returns to the original branch.

It caught a mouse. Swallowed the long tail whole.

The fifth juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle of the season.

A winter-plumage Oriental Pratincole that caught a large grasshopper.

Swallowed the large grasshopper whole, too.

This one is an Oriental Pratincole still showing a hint of summer plumage.

It was perched on the barbed-wire fence of a farm.

The Pheasant-tailed Jacana has large feet and long claws suited for walking on floating vegetation and the like.

Frightened by a raptor, it stayed completely frozen in this position.

A juvenile Common Kestrel caught a large grasshopper in mid-air.

A juvenile Marsh Sandpiper (left) lunging.

Its shin caught the adult square in the face.

The adult says hello from between the juvenile's legs. ^^ They're both deadly serious about it!!

A Marsh Sandpiper regurgitating a large pellet.