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

An extremely close male Ruddy Kingfisher.

The female paired with the individual above. Equally relaxed around people. Mating confirmed during Golden Week.

A Ruddy Kingfisher nest separate from the pair above. It looks complete, but Ruddy Kingfishers often disappear for a while after finishing the nest, and this one hasn't been seen lately either. I can still hear it calling, so it seems to be somewhere nearby.

A female Malayan Night Heron, perhaps? The feeling is that it's raising chicks somewhere, but after it finished foraging and flew off I couldn't follow it.

White-winged Terns flying around.

All eight birds came down onto the sandbar.

A White-winged Tern bathing.

With a tailwind from the shooting position, the White-winged Terns coming toward me were moving at quite a pace, but the AF on the SONY α1 with the FE 200-600mm kept up.

A White-winged Tern that caught a freshwater prawn. The bird behind is coming in to steal it.

One White-winged Tern fleeing, another in pursuit. It managed to escape without losing its catch.

For some reason the freshwater prawns were moving along the riverbed in the middle of the day.

This one is a freshwater prawn missing its right arm.

A Little Grebe chick receiving a dragonfly nymph from its father.

A sixth egg remains in the nest, but it looks like the nest was destroyed by heavy rain two days later.

A Little Grebe chick trying to climb onto its mother's back.

A male Ryukyu Scops Owl. On alert for crows.

A male Emerald Dove picking up a Macaranga seed that had fallen to the ground and split open.

Shot the other side of its face as well, just in case. Some children were making noise, so it was very much on guard. ^^;