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

A charming Forest Wagtail on the Dakada forest road. This individual was quite wary.

This Forest Wagtail was at Kabira Ishizaki. A confiding individual.

At the trailhead plaza of Mt. Omoto. Also a confiding individual.

The same Forest Wagtail as above. This bird kept walking steadily closer toward me.

It caught a large caterpillar.

It caught a grasshopper or something similar. The Forest Wagtail was walking along the edge of the trail, swinging its body from side to side, picking up small insects one after another.

It seems to be finding food — the crop is visibly bulging.

While watching shorebirds in the rice fields, an Oriental Pratincole came plunging down. It drank for a while, then took off again.

Three Far Eastern Curlews were resting in the rice fields. This seems to be a roost — they come in towards evening.

There were also snipe. Probably Swinhoe's Snipe, but I couldn't get conclusive evidence…

The Little Ringed Plovers were in a flock of a dozen or so.

It had come down to rest in the rice fields, then flushed suddenly when startled by a passing walker.

A flock of egrets descending into the rice fields after crossing Mt. Banna.

After circling several times it came down at Uratabaru.

The large flocks merged into one, and the sight of several hundred birds wheeling together was breathtaking.

A flock of egrets circling high in the sky. There were so many that they wouldn't all fit in the frame.

It caught a large Kishinoue's giant skink twice, but both times it was too close and I couldn't get a clear shot past the obstacles. This photo shows the bird after failing a third attempt, looking around curiously.

An adult Crested Serpent Eagle perched several tens of metres from the juvenile above. Whether they are parent and child is unknown.

The usual Crested Serpent Eagle on the Dakada forest road. Today there were no Ruddy Kingfishers to be found along the road.