Bill Dix
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Hard as I try, I remain peep-challenged. Two peeps were foraging in a tidal cut at Sandy Hook (NJ) yesterday. This one was the larger of the two. The smaller had black legs (not yellow like a Least), and a darker head and some whitish supercilium, and lacked as much of the rufous coloring as the one shown here. My first guess is Sanderling for the one shown here, but it wasn't darting in and out of the waves on the shoreline as I expect to see Sanderlings doing; rather, it was foraging just like the other (which I'm guessing is a Semipalm). If a Sanderling, it's certainly not a male in full breeding plumage. Maybe a female, or juvenile, or transitional? Any ideas?