A resident kolea, Kapiolani Park

Waikiki was so pretty today - and a low, low tide to boot (-0.3) just prior to me arriving.   Went out onto one of the stone jetties and looked backwards for a picture perfect shot of Diamond Head.  Took multiple shots of fishes (easier to see in the low water: humuhumu, lovely silvery/blue needle fish, wrasses, tangs, other triggerfish), liking the distortion in colours and shape underwater.  Lots of pigeons of various colours waiting for a handout, with one pure white one.  Stunning water colours of milky turquoise and green to deep blue, and exposed rocks and reef in places I didn't know them to be.   But going back to the car, spotted this little kolea.  Only a month from now, near the end of April, they will head back to Alaska to mate and raise chicks.   This one is well into its breeding plumage. 
I should go back soon to see what else I can find  . . . .