Id peeps and Merganser.

[cfowler 0]

Pictures taken today in North Myrtle Beach SC. 

[Birding Boy 281]

Those are Hooded Mergansers, but I pass on the shore birds.

[cfowler 0]

Thanks that's what I thought.

[AlexHenry 249]

For the shorebirds, the 2 back right birds and the 1 back left bird are Dunlins - note medium size, fairly long drooping bill, brownish gray color. The frontmost bird is I believe a Western Sandpiper - note small size, black legs, rather long slightly drooping bill.

The other two birds are dowitchers. Note that they are medium-large shorebirds with long, straight bills, fairly long legs, chunky bodies, pale eyebrows. I believe these birds are Short-billed Dowitcher but I'm not confident in that. The back one is still in some juvenile pumage. 

[cfowler 0]

Thank you.

[Phalarope713 156]

3 hours ago, AlexHenry said:

For the shorebirds, the 2 back right birds and the 1 back left bird are Dunlins - note medium size, fairly long drooping bill, brownish gray color. The frontmost bird is I believe a Western Sandpiper - note small size, black legs, rather long slightly drooping bill.

The other two birds are dowitchers. Note that they are medium-large shorebirds with long, straight bills, fairly long legs, chunky bodies, pale eyebrows. I believe these birds are Short-billed Dowitcher but I'm not confident in that. The back one is still in some juvenile pumage. 

Agreed. I think the dowitchers are indeed Short-billed.

[Tony Leukering 337]

Mergansers -- https://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/82.pdf

Note also that "peep" does not equal "shorebird." "Peep" is a term that covers the very smallest sandpipers: Least, Semipalmated, Western, White-rumped, Baird's, Spoon-billed, and everything with "stint" in its name.