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

Black-winged Kite in the middle of breeding. The chicks will fledge soon.

A passing Upland Buzzard. It seems there are three on the island this season.

A Common Buzzard passed overhead.

A Eastern Marsh Harrier was being mobbed by a Black-winged Kite.

A young Peregrine Falcon. Thought to be 2cy.

Same individual as above. A very beautiful bird.

Juvenile Peregrine Falcon.

A Saker Falcon caught a Little Egret. This individual is a very skilled hunter.

Juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle. It flew toward me along the waterway.

Same individual as above. For what it's worth, the Sony α1 doesn't miss focus even at this distance.

An unusually slender and small Common Kestrel juvenile. For a moment I thought it might be something else. ^^;

White Wagtail (leucopsis), female, first-winter plumage.

Also a White Wagtail (leucopsis), female, first-winter plumage.

Same individual as above. The bib is quite small, isn't it.

White Wagtail (leucopsis), winter plumage.

White Wagtail, female, first-winter plumage.

White Wagtail, female, winter plumage.

(Yellow-browed) Citrine Wagtail, first-winter plumage.

First-winter (Yellow-browed) Eastern Yellow Wagtail as well.

Female winter (Yellow-browed) Eastern Yellow Wagtail.

First-winter Red-throated Pipit.

Winter-plumage Red-throated Pipit.

Adult female Brown Shrike.

Female Siberian Stonechat.

Little Stint, winter plumage.

Eight Common Snipe.

Green Sandpiper, first-winter plumage.

Solitary Snipe, first-winter plumage.

Dunlin, first-winter plumage.

I was sitting and waiting on the shore when a Ruddy Turnstone came right up in front of me.

Besides flipping stones to look for food, the Ruddy Turnstone was also eating what appeared to be detritus.

Sanderling, first-winter plumage. Wintering individuals are scarce on Ishigaki-jima.

Greater Sand Plover, winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plover, winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plover, first-winter plumage.

Greater Sand Plover, first-winter plumage.

A male Kentish Plover already transitioning into breeding plumage.

Grey Plover, winter plumage.

Pacific Golden Plover, first-winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plovers and Greater Sand Plovers wheeling about after being startled by a Peregrine Falcon.

In the field I thought this was a Little Stint, but it appears to be a Red-necked Stint.

This one also looked like a Little Stint to me — but.

Same individual as above.

Red-necked Stint, first-winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint, first-winter plumage.

Long-toed Stint, first-winter plumage.

Temminck's Stints usually come in groups of two or three, but this time it was a flock of 12.

The Grey-lag Geese have been here since last year — a long stay. All five are present.

A small-type Bean Goose is also still around.

Two Bean Geese staying in the area.

Mallard × Eastern Spot-billed Duck hybrid.

Another Mallard × Eastern Spot-billed Duck hybrid.

A pair of Mallards.

Northern Pintail male (left) and Eastern Spot-billed Duck.

Eurasian Wigeon female, non-breeding plumage.

Eurasian Teal male, breeding plumage.

Eurasian Teal female, non-breeding plumage.

Falcated Duck male. Moulting from juvenile to first-winter breeding plumage.

Northern Shoveler male. Transitioning from eclipse to breeding plumage.

Gadwall male, breeding plumage.

Female non-breeding Gadwall.

Ten Common Pochards joined a flock of 150 Tufted Ducks.

Large-tailed Nightjar — a first record for Japan!! I wasn't able to get a photo myself, so Takeshita-kun kindly provided one!!

This is the Barred Buttonquail I mistook for the Large-tailed Nightjar. ^^; For some reason it was in the middle of the road late at night.