Purple Sand Piper

First off, Im no birder but I learned a little bit about this little guy walking the pier today. A couple bird watchers were out looking for these birds. I guess they are pretty rare to see along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Anyway, grabbed a few pics.

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Anyone know anything about this little guy?

So cute nice images

Patc wrote in post #15389973
So cute nice images

Thank you!

Nice set of images in typical habitat. One of my favourite waders, we get these in winter down the East coast of the UK, they breed in the northern tundra and are found in Greenland, Canada, etc, they can look very different depending on the light.

Nicely captured sir!

Thank you gentlemen! I can see why birding can be so addictive now, capturing this guy was pretty fun.