Day 292: Sanderling

Sanderlings are small wading birds that I like to lump in the group titled "shorebirds", which I am not very fond of. Though they are cute, many shorebirds look similar to me, and I have a hard time distinguishing them. However, these birds in the photos are most definitely Sanderlings, since Jared helped me identify them while we were walking along the Assateague shore a few weeks ago.