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

Too cute. It was holding its bill open in the scorching heat.

What adorable creatures. ^^ They will stay in the area for two or three days.

It's a chick, but those talons are impressive!!

The parent is perched about a metre away. I wish they had lined up together….

The Oriental Scops Owl chicks haven't fledged yet. I wonder when they will?

Got the whole bird, but the background… ^^;

It catches small moths neatly in mid-air and carries them to the nest. The female appeared to be hunting farther away.

A female Oriental Scops Owl watching her chick.

Crows are also nesting nearby, and the male Oriental Scops Owl attacks every time the parent crow brings food to its chick. ^^;

The female waits at the entrance of the nest hole.

The Oriental Scops Owls at the fishing port have become hard to find with all the foliage grown in, but I managed to spot them.

There was another one just a few metres from the owl above. When one started calling, the other called back as if in reply. Territorial display, I'd say.

The foliage here was too thick and this was the best I could get…. ^^;

The chicks here also seem to be growing well — the parent had been pushed out of the nest hole. ^^

This is a spot where Oriental Scops Owls nest every year, but it was my first time seeing the female. ^^

The male was nowhere to be found.

Also a spot where they nest every year. My guess is this one will fledge the earliest.

The male was perched in the tree behind.

It was calling high up in a Fukugi tree, and my neck got tired from looking up searching for it…. ^^;

Seeing only one eye gives it a strange look.