Shorebirds

These are best to catch in spring, though there is a fall migration too.

Avocets, godwits

Godwit

Phalarope

A bit distant..yellowlegs.

Try your ID skills

Of the "peeps", 7 inch sandpipers, the ones with black legs are semipalmated sandpipers.

Summer resident in most streams, spotted sandpiper

A good size shorebird, Wilson's snipe are around most of the year, though the nesting birds are in the North half of the state. 

Snipe with migrant Dowitcher and Dunlin. Jack Sinn East area.

Snipe, dowitcher. Most dowitchers are long billed, with short-billed seen for one week in May.

Solitary sandpiper with the bold eye ring.

American Golden Plover nonbreeding plumage, two of the same bird.