Dowitchers

The short-billed one comes through our county in small numbers in May and again end of August, in groups of 1-3. The long billed can be found in large groups in the fall. It took me 7 summers to find one. I found them in Washington state before, where large groups of a different subspecies gather on the coastal mud flats.

Long-billed Dowitcher

I don't seem to have a handy photo of the colorful spring birds, but here is one. 

The grayish winter birds are common, and easy to distinguish from the more squat and more colorful Wilson's snipe.

Summer

 If you stay in the same county all summer, nothing much new shows up. But I did get an Upland Sandpiper-.

Other photos were taken just because I had a camera along.

And from May

2021: Spring is here! A few warblers and a lot of shore birds migrating

 Willets

Other shore-birds

Pelicans. A few grebes were seen, mostly passed by now.

A few 2020 shots

 

Fox Sparrow

Western Grebe

Merganser

Gold-crowned Kinglet

Red-throated Loon

Pipit