Can you tell these three shorebirds apart? Get out your field guides and get some practice. I first saw these three birds at the Gridley Wastewater Treatment Ponds on the evening of July 10, 2014. Then two of them ended up in one of the fluddles just North of 2900 N on Highway 29 in McLean County. There were also Spotted and Least Sandpipers at the ponds, and there was a Solitary Sandpiper in one of the fluddles. That's a pretty good shorebird species count for early July (seven species including Killdeer). Here are some more shots of the three birds shown above.
In this photo one of the three birds shown above is standing behind a Spotted Sandpiper.
And here is a Killdeer chick I photographed there the same day at the same location.
Written and published on February 25, 2015
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