Oriental Pratincoles wheeling over the rice paddies.

Oriental Pratincoles resting in a harvested rice paddy. In full breeding plumage, of course.

I looked up and saw one had soared high into the sky — and it had caught a grasshopper. I was surprised enough that a grasshopper was flying at that height, but the eyesight of the Oriental Pratincole that spotted and caught it was equally astonishing.