It's a mighty shy bird and doesn't tell any one what it means to do.

I've heard them come calling over the beach at night sometimes though, and I suspect they go to the muddy side of the bar to feed, but I've never seen them there.

They mostly do their coming and going at night--and fly high too, even then.
"Sandpipers don't bore in the ground for their food, but just pick it up; so they keep along the shore of either fresh or salt water, some kinds choosing one place and some another.

The Spotted Sandpiper is another of the little fellows who sometimes nests back in those meadows.
He is not a bit shy, but runs about as tame as a Robin, and he isn't as big as a Robin either.

Sometimes they lay their eggs in the meadow and sometimes among the tuft-grass back of the beach.