October 18th Cape Cod, the hunt for a Glue Grosbeak was intense but so far I have been unsuccessful. yesterday (October 17th) I added 4 new species to my list, Cory’s, Manx and Great Shearwaters, as well as a Pomeranian Jaeger. after doing some quick math I released my life list was at 399 species, a truly unfortunate place to land, not that the important part of birding is the list, but with only one morning on the cape left and winter on my heals I really wanted to find that 400th bird. As I finished up my day on the cape I returned to the community garden where a Blue Grosbeak had been seen the morning before, no luck, the search continued, nothing. That night i planned for the morning was watching the Ebird alerts like a harrier watching a mouse in the grass below. The morning comes, after looking the night before I decide on Brewster wing island for the mornings birding location. As we walked out the path I have not seen anything no grosbeaks and definitely no lifers, but when we got to the beach I saw some plovers, and not just any plover American golden plovers. At least I hoped, after much observation and a fair bit of discussion around Black-Bellied Plovers, it was decided, my 400th bird was being seen through my scope at that moment. not the flashiest of birds and most certainly not the bird I had been looking for, (a small brown bird with a relatively short bill and a white stripe behind its eye witch in breeding season runs all the way down to its flank forming a stunning black white and gold pattern, running around on a mudflat eating whatever it could find getting ready to fly back to the south and its winter home) but certainly an amazing bird. One that makes an amazing journey across the americas, showing up at along the East and West coasts showing up in fields thought Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. 400, Success without ever traveling south of the New Mexico-Arizona border I had seen 400 different species of birds and I had completed this with a bird that travels all over the world in search of food and shelter, much as I hope to travel across the world searching for its avian counterparts.