Bagged the Eurasian Hoopoe — my top target. After preening, it fanned its crest open.

A Eurasian Hoopoe stretching its wings and relaxing.

It caught a cockroach.

A Eurasian Hoopoe found at a different spot. It had the feel of a bird that had just arrived on migration.

This individual was opening its crest frequently.

Adult male Common Blackbird. Beautiful.

The Common Blackbird appears to be rummaging through dead grass in search of insects.

Three Pied Avocets. A flock of eight had been observed on Yonaguni Island — whether the same group or different, I'm not sure.

Adult Purple Heron. I encountered many individuals in grasslands and rice paddies.

A young Purple Heron.

Also a young individual.

A Crested Serpent Eagle from the north.

These two Crested Serpent Eagles were in the same pasture. Probably a pair.

Adult Malayan Night Heron. First-summer plumage, perhaps?

Adult male Brown Shrike. Molt is well advanced and it's looking rather ragged.

A Brown Shrike missing its tail feathers. Attacked by a Japanese Sparrowhawk, perhaps?

Common Redshank in nearly full summer plumage. A few birds had come down into a drainage channel.

Adult female Black-winged Stilt. This one arrived on its own.

Eight Pacific Golden Plovers were on the school playground. No Greater Sand Plovers mixed in. ^^;

I thought the first wave of Common Snipe had moved on, but I found two.

First-year male Common Kestrel. Quite a few juvenile feathers remain in the wing coverts, so first-summer plumage seems right.

Eurasian Coots had thinned out in number. In recent years some overwinter — or rather, oversummer — on the Okinawa mainland, but I don't see that on Ishigaki.