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

Emerald Doves often come down to the road, but this one was perched on a branch. ^^

The metallic green wings change shade depending on the light.

This one is an Emerald Dove foraging on the ground. The plumage looked darker than the individual above, which had also been on the ground at the time.

This Ruddy Kingfisher is always in the same spot, shows little wariness, and is a very approachable bird.

The moult has progressed quite far and it looks rather scruffy. Even the bill, which had been so vivid, is now dull.

A Common Redshank looking exhausted. It sat down shortly after this. Perhaps it had only just arrived on migration.

A dozen or so Red-necked Stints were mixed in as well.

There was an oil-covered juvenile Black-winged Stilt.

It appeared to be blind in the left eye. Even when I approached, it seemed to see nothing at all.

It was eating a small Ryukyu Black-breasted Leaf Turtle.

The usual pair of Crested Serpent Eagles was on the Kadada forest road.

A few Common Greenshanks were in the paddies together.

I thought there was an unusual wader, and it turned out to be a Marsh Sandpiper.

Wood Sandpipers are everywhere in the paddies, in good numbers.

A White-breasted Waterhen was foraging with chicks in tow.

Standing on the rim of the nest, practicing wing-flapping.

Four days after the photo above — August 9th, the day after the day after Typhoon No. 13 brought 50-metre-per-second winds on the 7th — I visited the site to find the Akagi trees where the nest had been in a sorry state, and the Japanese Sparrowhawk nest blown away. After searching for a while, I found signs that the Japanese Sparrowhawk chick had been eaten by something.