Little Stint, winter plumage.

Eight Common Snipe.

Green Sandpiper, first-winter plumage.

Solitary Snipe, first-winter plumage.

Dunlin, first-winter plumage.

I was sitting and waiting on the shore when a Ruddy Turnstone came right up in front of me.

Besides flipping stones to look for food, the Ruddy Turnstone was also eating what appeared to be detritus.

Sanderling, first-winter plumage. Wintering individuals are scarce on Ishigaki-jima.

Greater Sand Plover, winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plover, winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plover, first-winter plumage.

Greater Sand Plover, first-winter plumage.

A male Kentish Plover already transitioning into breeding plumage.

Grey Plover, winter plumage.

Pacific Golden Plover, first-winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plovers and Greater Sand Plovers wheeling about after being startled by a Peregrine Falcon.

In the field I thought this was a Little Stint, but it appears to be a Red-necked Stint.

This one also looked like a Little Stint to me — but.

Same individual as above.

Red-necked Stint, first-winter plumage.

Red-necked Stint, first-winter plumage.

Long-toed Stint, first-winter plumage.

Temminck's Stints usually come in groups of two or three, but this time it was a flock of 12.