Siberian Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Siberian Pipit, Red-throated Pipit
Among a flock of several dozen Eastern Yellow Wagtails and Red-throated Pipits, there was one Siberian Eastern Yellow Wagtail. This season the numbers of Eastern Yellow Wagtails and Red-throated Pipits have been low — quite disappointing.
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (beema), first-winter plumage.
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (taivana), first-winter plumage.
First-winter (Yellow) Citrine Wagtail.
First-winter Sykes's Wagtail.
A few Buff-bellied Pipits were mixed in.
On Ishigaki and Okinawa, Red-throated Pipits are overwhelmingly more common than Buff-bellied Pipits.
While I was watching the shorebirds, a Peregrine Falcon showed up at its usual spot. It had its eye on a Eurasian Coot, but a light truck passed by and it flew off somewhere.
First-winter Common Snipe.