The last time I was at Col Sam Smith Park I searched the entire coast for sandpipers. No luck!
Better luck today as I found several individuals of two species.
The well-named Spotted Sandpiper:





Spotted Sandpipers nest in our area although the Spotties I saw today may be migrants from farther north.
Solitary Sandpipers nest in the far north and are heading south now.








MYSTERY BIRD
I will identify it at the end of the post.

Other birds:













MYSTERY BIRD
These birds pass through here near the end of the month of May. Whimbrels.

NATURE POETRY
There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres. – Lord Byron
Miles Hearn
Got it! I had a bit of trouble getting the name exactly “right”, but I got it right enough, and I knew what they were. Beautiful pictures, as always. Thanks, Miles!