species ID please..sandpipers??

These were taken at Sharks Bay, Western Australia. We were out fishing in our boat and stopped for a break on this beach and there were birds everywhere. This is a very isolated beach and can only really be reached by boat. Anyway out came the bigma but no matter how hard I tried to get close, they just kept walking ahead of me, like this

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Hi Witchy

Pic 2 "little birds at the front with the brown on their heads and chest are?" the one on the right looks like a ruddy turnstone and the one on the left looks like a greater sand plover.

Pic 3 look like bar tail godwits, the brown one might be a juvenile.

Pic 5 could be western sand pipers.

scnapper wrote in post #3284087
Hi Witchy

Pic 2 "little birds at the front with the brown on their heads and chest are?" the one on the right looks like a ruddy turnstone and the one on the left looks like a greater sand plover.

Pic 3 look like bar tail godwits, the brown one might be a juvenile.

Pic 5 could be western sand pipers.

thanks heaps for that, gives me something to google and search for myself.

Some more to look at would be sharp-tailed sandpipers,common greenshanks and wood sand pipers.

Thanks again, I thought the last ones were some type of Sandpiper but had no idea with the others. Muchly appreciated

scnapper, just had a look at your pics, they are very good.

Thank you Witchy, but as you know we are spoilt with birds here in the South West.

We sure are.