Wading birds and marshland bird help needed - Zhejiang, China (1 Viewer)

[earpy1]

We found a really scruffy area of marshland on the edge of our city Zhuji in Zhejiang province, China and discovered some great wading birds including a water rail which was really very exciting and unexpected. However, I have a few birds which I am uncertain of their identification. Apologies for the photo quality - these birds were so far away that the lens couldn't quite get perfect shots. However, I hope they are good enough for ID purposes. Any help, as always, greatly appreciated!

 

[aeshna5]

2-4 Wood Sandpiper
8 Common Sandpiper

 

[earpy1]

2-4 Wood Sandpiper
8 Common Sandpiper

That's fantastic thank you so much! Are they male and female?
My current book doesn't have the Wood Sandpiper in - awaiting delivery of my birthday present book but it's languishing in customs somewhere!!

 

[Butty]

It's not possible readily to sex either of the waders.
Wood sandpiper is one of the most common inland waders in Eurasia. Your soon-to-be-retired book must be rubbish indeed 🙁👎🏻
I guess the other is a prinia.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

1 & 5-7 are all Plain Prinias ssp. extensicauda.

Grahame

 

[earpy1]

It's not possible readily to sex either of the waders.
Wood sandpiper is one of the most common inland waders in Eurasia. Your soon-to-be-retired book must be rubbish indeed 🙁👎🏻
I guess the other is a prinia.

Yes the book is indeed rubbish! It is a maybe 5th or 6th hand book and has several pages missing which is probably the fate of the wood sandpiper page! Hence the need for the much anticipated new one! But this forum and website has been such a help - thanks so much for the help!
I was wondering about the male and female because the colouration and build of the birds looked a little different - but I am just delighted to have found an area of marsh which can support birds such as these - the local government are currently "gentrifying" this area so I just hope they don't clean it up too much and remove the habitat for these birds. A local we met said there was also whimbrel here too which is my next target! In this location we saw little ringed plover, the brown-cheeked water rail, common snipe, eurasian teal and many many little egrets. We also saw crested myna and little grebe too. A very productive site considering the noise and disruption from the building and digging works being done!

And thank you for the info and ID for the birds!

 

[earpy1]

1 & 5-7 are all Plain Prinias ssp. extensicauda.

Grahame

That's fantastic thank you so much! Such lively little birds in small groups - flitting in and out of the undergrowth as well as on the reeds. So hard to get a decent shot of!