Well it wasn't raining when we left the house, but it was drizzly when we got there - and then it started pouring. Lucky for me there was an experienced birder there (he said he's been birding at that park for twenty years!) with a scope (at least double the strength of my camera) and he knew exactly where the bird was. He even helped me identify the two other shore birds hanging out on the same strip of land. The photo above is very enlarged - here is the photo at 600mm:
The American Golden Plover makes the longest migratory journey of any shorebird. It breeds in the Arctic tundra and winters in the grasslands of Argentina. It's about 9" long and weighs about 6 oz. Usually it travels throught the midwest USA. The last time an AGPL was seen in the Seattle area was 2015. Also, there is this seen in "The Big Year":
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