GUIDED BIRDWATCHING TOUR
We'll drive you around Ishigaki Island to wherever the birds are showing best that day. Observation is mostly from inside the vehicle, and we keep it to a maximum of 3 guests so everyone can take their time.
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Today's prey deliveries were mostly grasshoppers, cicadas, and bees. Earthworms just once.
Twelve feeding visits in two hours. The chick has a healthy appetite.
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A Ryukyu Scops Owl chick peering out from the hollow. So cute! ^^
The first fledgling left the nest two days ago.
It kept popping in and out. ^^
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A two-shot of the second and third chicks. They flew right over my head. ^^
The eldest is a bit more wary. It's pestering the parent to bring food.
This one is also the eldest. It flies around the forest a lot. Doesn't seem to be practicing hunting yet.
The female Japanese Sparrowhawk parent. Striking bird. The male hasn't shown himself at all…. ^^;
Also a female. She is dismembering a Large Brown Cicada.
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The chicks peering out of the nest hole are getting bigger day by day.
Is that a cockroach it's carrying?
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After flapping its wings energetically, it fell back into the nest hole…. ^^;
The female parent brought a Tsukutsukuboushi cicada, but the chick seems full and won't eat. ^^;
Finally, all the remaining chicks came outside!!
This is the male Ryukyu Scops Owl parent.