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

It brought a grasshopper. The adult and chick are quite different in both colour and size.

Another grasshopper. The chick already seemed full and didn't eat this one.

As with people, when there are fewer siblings there's plenty of food to go around, so they grow up at a leisurely pace.

Most of the pods have dropped, leaving just the heads.

The parent shows the prey but won't give it to the chick — behaviour meant to encourage fledging. When they do this, the chick usually fledges that same day, but this one didn't seem ready.

After eating a Cane Toad there is blood around the base of its bill.

Diving after spotting prey.

It caught a large Cane Toad. Even with both eyes gouged out the toad held on stubbornly, and after more than an hour of struggling the owl flipped it over and tore into its belly. It seems to avoid the poison glands. Partway through, a juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle showed up but was completely ignored and eventually wandered off. The video also captures the juvenile calling in a rather pitiful voice.

In the middle of all that drama, a White-breasted Waterhen crossed the scene… ^^; Just woken up?

So cute! Compared to when the other two were taken and it was tumbling from the nest, it looks strikingly bigger and stronger now. ^^

The father of the chick above.

The black-eyed one was in almost the same spot as the other day. I wonder if it's nesting here? I can't get in any further, so that's as much as I know. ^^;