This morning when I got up it was raining so I waited until 6:30 before I went down to the park. When I left the house it was still raining, but it was lighter outside.
There was a few American robins singing in my neighborhood was I walked down to the park.
When I got down to the park I saw that the tide was out quite a bit and that a flock of what I was pretty sure were dowitchers, so I walked out onto the beach in the rain to see if they were Long-billed or Short-billed dowitchers. I got out there and walked out into the water so that I could get a better angle on them. While I was in the water I had taken my waterproof gloves off so at I could take a few photos of the dowitchers. I had to put one of them down so that I could put my camera away, so I put it on top of my binoculars but it fell off and since I was in the water it got wet inside. After I had put my camera away I picked up my glove and put it on. It was wet and uncomfortable, so after waring it for a short time I took both of my gloves off and put them in my pockets. I walked down the beach and when I was nearing the end I smelled the sent of rotten eggs. If the tide is low enough it smells like rotten eggs where there is a lot of mud. I saw that there were a lot of Black turnstones out by the river so I walked over there in anticipation to see if there were any unusual birds over there. On my way over there I saw eight Black-bellied plovers feeding. I got over by the River and saw that there hundreds of Black turnstones, a lot of Surfbirds, Rock sandpipers, a several Dunlins and a few Least and Western sandpipers poking their bills into the ground in search of food. After carefully made my way back through a part of the river as to not go over my boot.
I walked back to the trail and walked down the trail. On my way down the trail and back home I stopped and ate a violet leaf. It tasted a bit bitter but it wasn’t bad. After that I walked home and took my very wet stuff off to dry.
