Sanderlings

adults or first-summer birds? texts state that first-summer Sanderling do not acquire breeding plumage but would an adult have such worn brown flight feathers as these birds? indeed have they been on the Lincs coast all summer? a flock of 140 first-summer Bar-tailed Godwits summered on the south bank of the Humber this year but only a few males acquired a little orange in their plumage ---