Ruff, Common Redshank, Long-toed Stint and More
Waders keep turning over fast on Ishigaki Island. Today two Ruffs turned up in a paddy relatively far inland.
Common Redshanks are in flocks of a few birds in every paddy I visit, with adults and juveniles mixed together.
Among the Long-toed Stints, juveniles are by far the majority.
Juvenile Red-necked Stints have finally started to arrive. In exchange, the number of adults has dropped.
Other than those, Wood Sandpipers, Black-winged Stilts and Swinhoe's Snipe are staying in good numbers.
Ruff, male juvenile. A female juvenile was also present in the same paddy field.
Common Redshank juvenile. A little first-winter plumage is just starting to show.
Long-toed Stint in juvenile plumage. Beautiful.
Little Stint juvenile.
Wood Sandpiper moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage.
Grey-tailed Tattler, adult in late summer plumage (foreground), and juvenile.
Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile.
Lesser Sand Plover juvenile. It had apparently retreated to the paddy fields during the spring tide high water.
Dunlin juvenile. Adults have yet to appear this year.
