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

The top one is the first chick, the bottom the second. The third shows up occasionally but hasn't come up to the top yet.

It brought cicada larvae about three times. It catches them as they emerge from the ground to moult.

This time it brought a grasshopper.

The mother Oriental Scops Owl. She was perched in a different spot from usual, so I thought she had fledged overnight — but not yet.

An Oriental Scops Owl chick just about to fledge. Adorable.

It keeps looking upward, clearly on edge about something above.

The gecko it brought was too large for the chick to eat.

A fledgling.

From the back left: male, juvenile. In the foreground, the female.

The male passes food to the female. He doesn't hand it over straight away, using it to encourage the chicks to fledge.

I confirmed two birds. Same as every year.

This is a different pair. Day by day the branch they perch on is getting lower.

A male Brown Hawk-Owl.

I can only see its face — could it be incubating?