Birding Part 4

We made our way to the coastline of Mud Bay, wobbling down the boggy clay slope. I got a bruised bum when my feet slid out from under me on the boulders at bottom. Quite a bit of the slope was lost to slumping from winter storms. Mega-moose was standing post in the bottomlands of our property where she gives birth every year. It will be a few more weeks before we have to worry about her protecting calves, but she is intimidating none-the-less. Fearing a fall in the wet ground I didn't carry binoculars or camera so don't you know we ran into a small flock of about two dozen whimbrels, some of those black bellied plovers I haven't yet seen well enough to ID and a bunch of ducks. Getting back up the slope again is much more difficult so I'm thinking next time I'll take the leashes and just walk the beach down to the boatyard where I can get up to the road using the ramp then hike back home along East End Road. It's a bit longer distance but the dogs will get a chance to dry out on the way. Will have to see if the old dogs are up to it.