But for any sort of conversation they were too volatile; before I could get a dozen words from them they would be off again, flying and flitting along the margin, like sandpipers, and beating the clear-voiced sandpiper at his own aerial graceful game.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
No other place for some distance is visited by the sandpiper: none of the ponds, or brooks; only the lake.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
We are treated to peeps into the nests of the orange-crowned warbler, the hermit thrush, and that shy wader, the spotted sandpiper.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron