The first Great Knots of the season. They arrived as a pair.

Great Knot, adult. In transition from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

I thought it was a flock of Grey-tailed Tattlers, but one of them looks odd. ^^;

A few Common Greenshanks turned up — they were regular early in the autumn migration, then went quiet for a while.

An adult Lesser Sand Plover with a late moult. Still in late breeding plumage. I wonder where this one came from.

Lesser Sand Plover, juvenile to first-winter plumage.

A Greater Sand Plover in a field. After a typhoon you run into birds in unexpected places.

Greater Sand Plover (left) and Red-necked Stint.

Four juvenile Grey-tailed Tattlers in a group.

A Whimbrel that summered over. First-summer to winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint, juvenile to first-winter plumage.

Juvenile Red-necked Stint.

A Pacific Reef Heron with a tiger prawn it had caught.

The prey was large and the bird had a hard time swallowing it.