Western Sandpiper etc.

Today Steve Dinsmore and I canoed out to the mudflats at Red Rock to get a better look at the thousand plus shorebirds.

On the day, we tallied 19 species of shorebirds:

Pectoral Sandpiper

Killdeer

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Semipalmated Plover

Spotted Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Black-bellied Plover

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Solitary Sandpiper

Sanderling

Wilson's Phalarope

Baird's Sandpiper (3)

WESTERN SANDPIPER (2)

Upland Sandpiper (1)

American Golden-Plover (1)

RUDDY TURNSTONE (1)

A highlight for me was seeing at least 2 WESTERN SANDPIPERS. Below is a digiscoped photo of one of them:

Another highlight included 3 singing ALDER FLYCATCHERS at one spot!