Hard id - bad photos, Tarrant County TX 8/8/2014
I think I see ripples around this bird on the right in the photos with two birds. I'm thinking Phalarope? Wilson's is most likely here, but darkish color is throwing me off. I'm not sure if its just the photo/poor lighting throwing me off. Any stabs at the shorebird on the left?
Unfortunately, too poor to do anything useful with!
Left hand wader might be a Sanderling, but that's far from certain.
Right hand bird, not sure it's even a wader at all; it looks like it has a long tail, and to be honest, my impression is of a Mourning Dove bathing ;-)
Resin
In the second photo, the bird on the right seems to have darker markings on crown and back of head.
Does this help?
I knew it was a long shot, thank y'all for taking at a look at it. Resin, I thought Mourning Dove, too, but the bird was in the same spot for at least the span of 14 minutes, which is the amount of time between my first photo and my last photo, which I thought would be unusual bathing behavior. There was Sanderling reported there the day before.
