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

A male Ryukyu Dwarf Bittern. Beautiful.

A female Ryukyu Dwarf Bittern. This individual can be identified by the chipped tip of her bill.

The wing pattern is clearly different from the female Von Schrenck's Bittern the other day. Both are wonderful birds. ^^

This Ryukyu Scops Owl was perched in a pine tree jutting out over the river, apparently waiting for frogs coming to the still water below. Even when it disappeared for a while, it always came back — clearly a favourite hunting spot. That said, this individual is not very accustomed to people, so I only pressed the shutter once. It would be a shame for the owl to abandon such a valuable feeding site, and I'd lose one of my pleasures too. ^^;

There's a large Huntsman Spider on the branch it's perched on — I wonder if the owl has noticed?

This is a Ryukyu Scops Owl living in the park, extremely tame. Even if I accidentally got as close as about two metres, it didn't flinch at all.

This individual treated me to a slightly muffled, descending call: "wok, wok, wok, woh". I wonder if, like the Ryukyu Scops Owl, the Ryukyu subspecies also has different calls between males and females?