Shorebird ID help - Bolivar Peninsula, TX (1 Viewer)

[SusieRuss]

I believe the first bird is a Marbled Godwit. I would like to know what the second bird is - I have huge problems with peeps.

 

[Butty]

Could you give the dates, please? - that's often helpful in shorebird ID for understanding the plumage and state of moult (and should always be given with an ID request in any case). Thanks.
1. Yes.
2. I'd take it to be a semipalmated sandpiper - probably moulting into breeding plumage - depending on the date.

 

[THE_FERN]

2. I'd take it to be a semipalmated sandpiper -

Unless that really is yellow I can see on the legs (in which case least sand) in the low light where I write this

 

[SusieRuss]

Thank you! These birds were both seen last weekend.

 

[lou salomon]

Unless that really is yellow I can see on the legs (in which case least sand) in the low light where I write this

I think it's real indeed, a small part on upper leg still yellow, rest is apparently mud covered. Bill is fine and pointed, breast would be extremely dark for any Semipalmated Sanpiper. So, Least Sandpiper.