A daily journal.
Mainly introducing wild birds of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, through photos.

First Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe and Red-necked Phalarope of the season after the typhoon, and more

With Typhoon No. 6 moving away from Ishigaki Island, I did a patrol of the rice paddies. Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, and Red-necked Phalarope had all arrived for the first time this season.

I recorded my first juvenile Wood Sandpiper and Long-toed Stint of the season. Common Greenshank and Little Ringed Plover numbers were also up.

Cinnamon Bitterns breed on the island, and I am encountering recently fledged juveniles more and more often.

Pin-tailed Snipe

First Pin-tailed Snipe adult of the season.

Pin-tailed Snipe

Quite distant, but a running Pin-tailed Snipe.

Pin-tailed Snipe

Also a Pin-tailed Snipe. Three individuals confirmed on this day.

Greater Painted-snipe

Greater Painted-snipe adult female.

Greater Painted-snipe

A Greater Painted-snipe male accompanying the female above.

Greater Painted-snipe

Another pair in the same paddy field as the Greater Painted-snipe pair above. I watched to see if a territorial dispute would break out, but nothing happened. Perhaps because the breeding season is over?

Wood Sandpiper

First Wood Sandpiper juvenile of the season. There were several dozen Wood Sandpipers, of which around 10% were juveniles.

Red-necked Phalarope

First Red-necked Phalarope of the season. Moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

Long-toed Stint

A Long-toed Stint juvenile bathing.

Yellow Bittern

A Ryukyu Dwarf Bittern juvenile. Beginning to transition into first-winter plumage.

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