My first migrant (1 Viewer)

Having only started birding this year, in about may today I have my first confirmed migrant, and I am pretty excited by that.

The bird, a pair of solitary sand pipers (range considerably north of me). These are also my first sand pipers, fun little birds. They were in a small, partially dried up pond that had exposed mud areas. I had always imagined them as larger birds when I saw them on documentaries. They were very fun to watch, hyperactive with a cartoon-esque run I am sure you are all mostly familiar with.

No idea where they darted off to though, didn't see flight, just gone.

Well spotted Kyle!

With all the rain we have been having, I miss seeing the migrating shorebirds. The mudflats are non-existent and vegetation is taking over the places which should be mudflats. (* This is in northwest Missouri.)

Have fun with the shorebirds Kyle!

Hoping to get out to some coastal marshes this weekend, but it is the same here Larry, not many mudflats here, I have not managed to find any real ones. This was entirely a fluke. I tend to see waders, waterfowl, and perched birds but very few shorebirds of any variety.