Shorebirds are hard to ID, evidently. I’m not particularly familiar with them here in Wisconsin, probably owing to the fact that they tend to be small, very camouflaged, and pretty flighty when approached. This bunch of tan spotty things were hanging out on a very large sand bar on the Wisconsin River just south of Sauk City, WI. The bunch was big enough, and there seemed to be plenty of food to be had, that I was able to get fairly close to at least a few stragglers on each of my passes along the river bank. I presume that the ones that aren’t obviously killdeer are some variety of sandpiper, but I’m not sure which. I was unable to get any good shots of them in flight, but do remember a dark stripe down the middle of the tail extending from the lower back.
Thus, I pose the question to you, oh nebulous floating consciousness that is the blogosphere, what are these little guys?
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