Bruce and many others have been seeing a small flock of Sanderling’s at the Chamber’s Bay Beach Access area for the last week or so, and I thought I’d likely miss them, but my first chance after getting back today I went and tried. I was thinking maybe they had vamooshed but no, after a modest walk north from the steps there they were, roosting and foraging in the driftwood and debris near the back of the beach. They flushed to the water as I walked up on them. I believe this is second time in Pierce for Sanderling for me, prior in the same place, but I didn’t have them on eBird, so as far as record keeping it’s a Pierce County first for me.

Also had a Lincoln’s sparrow further down the beach in the trees by the RR tracks. 2 FOY birds there for me today.