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

First Wood Sandpiper juveniles of the season. It seems they arrived all at once.

Juvenile Wood Sandpiper. Seeing juveniles is always reassuring — it means breeding went well.

First Common Sandpiper juvenile of the season.

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in late summer plumage. Arrived as a pair.

Also the first Rufous-necked Stint of the season. A small flock, with various stages of moult.

Left to right: Greater Painted-snipe male juvenile, female juvenile, male subadult. Still moving around together as a family even at this size.

Little Ringed Plover adult.

Juvenile Ryukyu Least Bittern.

Juvenile Purple Heron.

Juvenile Malayan Night Heron.

Juvenile Ryukyu Least Bittern.

Juvenile Ryukyu Least Bittern.

Juvenile Ryukyu Least Bittern in the rice paddies at dusk.

The first Grey Herons of the season — two birds.

Dunlin with winter plumage beginning to show in patches.

Pacific Golden Plover in a flock of around ten.

Common Greenshank that appear to have just arrived on migration. The flock numbered a dozen or so and looked generally tired.

Common Sandpiper in late summer plumage.

Wood Sandpiper in late summer plumage.

Long-toed Stint in first-summer plumage.

Oriental Pratincole gradually changing into winter plumage as well.

Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe. It was a plump, well-fed individual.

Spotted a Pin-tailed Snipe adult in the distance.

Same individual as above. After a while it began bathing.

The moult progress is clearly visible.

Preening after bathing.

And the answer confirmed. ^^

First Long-toed Stint juvenile of the season. Numbers will shoot up from here.

Also a first record this season — a Ruff juvenile.

Oriental Pratincole, adult. The moult into winter plumage is well under way.

Common Greenshank numbers are steadily increasing, but juveniles have yet to arrive.

Common Greenshank moving into winter plumage.

Long-toed Stint also in mid-moult to winter plumage.

Juvenile Ryukyu Least Bittern. Encounters with both adults and juveniles have been frequent.

This individual appears to have hatched this year. A Ministry of the Environment general-use ring is also fitted on the right leg.

Released from the ground. It managed to get airborne.

It perched in a tree about four metres up. After around thirty minutes it disappeared into the forest.