Beaver 1967 species account Buff Crested Sandpiper 2 27 June (cont.) 1615 doing this. we continued to watch for a while but the activity subsided completely in a few minutes. 28 June his is the Barrel area at about the same location as the previous entry. I just photographed a Buff-Crested Sandpiper at about 15' with the 350 mm lens. it fed along a low polygon for a while and then flew off. no displays were given.