Larryshuman

The first bird was shot at Howard Marsh Metro Park in eastern Lucas county in Ohio. The second bird was shot at Side Cut Metro Park in Maumee, Ohio. My Kaufman's book provides no help and Ohiobirding/facebook has been no help either.
Thanks
Larry

The Saint KK4GO Loc: Florida

Looks like a “Ruddy Turnstone” #2 maybe a “Sandpiper”

bendavis2

They are both Spotted Sandpipers.

The first is an adult. The second is a juvenile that hasn't developed spots yet.

(P.s. your heavy use of the rubber stamp tool in photoshop gets glaringly obvious when you continue to copy from the same location for a long distance and you get the same noticeable ground feature repeating several times in a row. When you see that repeating pattern, find a different spot on the ground with a less pronounced pattern, and copy from there over the top of one duplicate pattern. Then find another indistinct ground spot for your source, and use it to break up the next repeated pattern.

This can help lend reality to your picture and prevent it from looking too cleaned up.

You have two rows of repeated brown ground patterns, and a handful of scattered white patterns with the same repeated triangular crack.)

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I agree; spotted sandpipers. I am no expert, though.

Larryshuman

Thanks for the info. Really curious the adult Spotted was shot at Howard Marsh Metro Park and the juvenile was spot a Side Cut Metro about 30 miles west of Howard. Really amazing. Thanks again.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

Two very nice images....well taken.