Spirit Guide of the day is Sandpiper! Take some time out of your day to collect your favorite music and dance away! There may be an emotionally challenging time, but do what you must to stay grounded. Whether with dance, meditation, or other activities. The Sandpiper Spirit Guide is known for it's connections to motion whether physical or mentally such as towards a goal, problem-solving, and perseverance. This bird can aid you in industrious productivity and outward bursts of energy. Use this to fuel future endeavors. Sandpipers are known for having a communal society, so it may be beneficial for you to spend time within a social group or community that you feel particularly connected with. Although this guide is a strong influence for focused action, the Sandpiper also reminds us to have fun! Allow yourself to spend time in moments of simple and pure happiness. Don't be afraid to bring out your inner child. Have fun, be silly. Remember that you don't have to be a stoic adult all the time. Engage in lighthearted play. You may experience more masculine or yang energy now, so use this time to be more active physically. It may be helpful to chance up your diet and eat small portions of light food interspersed with small snacks throughout the day. If male, you should take time to engage in activity with any children you may have. People who connect with Sandpiper greatly enjoy spending as much time at the seashore as they can and are amazing at scavenging resources that others easily overlook. These individuals are witty, flirtatious, with very balanced male and female aspects. They enjoy making others smile and laugh as much as they can.

Sandpipers, Scolopacidae, are small, drab colored birds with long, straight beaks and a distinctive teetering behavior where their head and rear are constantly bobbing up and down when standing or walking. These birds have a greenish-brown color along the head, and upperbreast with dark streaks that contrast with their bright white underbelly. These colors are brighter during the breeding season. The Sandpiper possesses a distinctive flight with rapid, shallow wing beats on their stiff, curved wings. When in flight, a striking white wingbar can be seen. Females are usually slightly bigger than males. Sandpipers have been recorded to live for up to 12 years in the wild. This migratory species remains throughout Europe, across central Asia, Russia, and Japan during the breeding seasons. During the winter, the Sandpiper will migrate to areas across Western Europe and Africa, through the Middle East, South Asia, and Australia. Migration happens at night, either singly or in small flocks. Young birds will leave the nesting grounds later than the adults and often remain on the wintering grounds during their first summer of life. When in the breeding season, Sandpipers prefer the edges of water such as pebbly, rocky, or sandy stretches of river, pools, lakes, and sheltered sea coasts. They will search for food in grasslands and dry meadows, however. In contrast, during the winter season, they will widen their habitats to coastal shores, salt marshes, inland wetlands, and even sewage works. Foraging will then occur in grasslands as well as along roadsides and urban areas. Although they will avoid mudflats, frozen, or very hot areas. The diet of a Sandpiper is varied and includes insects, mulluscs, crustaceans, and spiders as well as occasionally small fish, tadpoles, adult frogs, and some plant material such as seeds. During the winter, they will partake mainly of marine invertebrates rather than insects. Foraging generally happens during the day either alone or in small groups. They prefer to eat prey taken from the surface, rather than digging into the mud. Groups of over 100 individuals will roost together at night. These birds are monogamous, breeding between May and June when they will nest in scattered pairs. Nests are shallow depressions in the ground situated under shrubs or trees where three to five eggs are laid. Both male and female Sandpiper will incubate the eggs, which hatch after approximately 22 days. These greyish-brown chicks are covered in faint dark specklings on their back. Both parents also tend to the hatched chick, although one parent, usually the female, will leave before the young fledge at around 25 days.