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

This Javan Pond Heron shows no fear of people and just keeps walking closer….

Is the prey an African giant snail?

This time it brought a Crested tree lizard.

This fledging was surprisingly uneventful. I got the settings wrong, so the focus is a bit soft.

It flew over the blind and nearly 20 metres out. After that, it was called by the parent and disappeared into the undergrowth….

There are four chicks. They should fledge tomorrow or the day after!!

For about an hour after I set up the blind they brought no food at all, but once it started to drizzle and the humidity rose they came with food about five times in two hours. Every item was a snail.

The snail is quite large — it might even be a Giant African Snail. Either way, the Ruddy Kingfisher is a useful bird for farms.

A Yaeyama palm-lined path that must be at least 120 metres long. Apparently a café is planned to open at the far end.

A female Greater Painted-snipe hopping around and displaying to the male.

A male Greater Painted-snipe being led to the nest scrape.

It has already grown so large that it is barely distinguishable from the adult.

While photographing this Ryukyu Scops Owl, a slave speedlight toppled over and was damaged ^^;

From the same brood as the Ryukyu Scops Owl blurred in the foreground.