sandpiper-like birds

early morning reading:

sanderling,
ruddy turnstone,
red knot,
ruff winter plumage,
ruddy turnstone winter plumage,
upland sandpiper.

willet,
dunlin,
whimbrel,
lesser yellowlegs,
short-billed dowitcher,
long-billed curlew,
greater yellowlegs,
hudsonian godwit,
and
black-necked stilt


(next up: the boat-tailed grackle: tail very long and keel-shaped; 3 or 4 pale blue eggs, spotted and scrawled with brown and purple, in a bulky cup of grass, mud, and decayed vegetation placed from 2 to 10' up in marsh grass or bushes).