Red Knot

This is the first time I've ever seen one of these - well three of these - birds here on Assateague. It is, in fact, the first time I've ever seen one at all ever. A lifer! I hear tell of them in Delaware Bay every spring in migration - eating the eggs of the horseshoe crabs, but I've never been there or seen them. I realized pretty quickly they were something I'd never seen before, and my handy dandy SEEK app identified it for me when I pointed it at the photo on my computer. Bingo! This is nonbreeding plumage, or probably in this case, these three were juveniles. In breeding plumage they are very red orange.