esquimalt lagoon and albert head lagoon

Had to cancel the trip to beechey head for a Hawk Watch because of the rainy day, so I decided to go down to Esquimalt  and Albert Head Lagoon instead. I arrived at the bridge end at about 8 am, it was still raining and the gulls were sitting  at the sandbar in the lagoon. amongst them were 2 Caspian Terns and several Oystercatchers. All of a sudden all the pigeons and starlings flew up in front of me frantically, so I searched and found a Peregrine swooping down and circling through the flocks. It missed, it then maded a quick exit and  headed off toward Fisgard lighthouse. As I was searching the shoreline inside the lagoon I heard a commotion over on the outside of the bridge, it sounded like a gull squawking. about 20 gulls got up from the lagoon and headed over to circle above the lagoon entrance. When I got across the road I could see a juvenile glaucaus winged gull head down in the current with its wings sticking up in the air. It then seemed to manuevre itself over to the shoreline, but when it rocky beach out popped an Otter with the gulls neck in its mouth and 2 other otters hopping around excited over the gull. The otter proceded to chow down on the now motionless gull, plucking feathers from around the neck area. All of a sudden the gull came to, and started to flop and fly away with the otter trying to hang on. The otter fell off it back and the gull managed to get airbourne enough to escape the grasp. As it flew from the beach the otter was in hot persuit leaping and loping into the water behind the gull. The gull flew by me shaking itself off and slowly headed out to sea every now and again giving itself another shake. The otters by now were on the beach on this side of the river scurrying around still looking for departed gull. All three soon gave up and headed back to the water and the other side where there were still a pile of feathers left behind to investigate.
I drove down the lagoon road and stopped to see a wimbrel sized bird flying out from the shoreline towards esquimalt harbour, only to disappear into the distant fog. I could see a long bill and a beige colouring to the bird but it was too far away to get a positive ID.
At Albert head lagoon there was 5 Western Sandpipers feeding on the near shore with 2 kildeer. In the grass were about 20 Savannah sparrows as well as a Lincoln's sparrow and an orange-crowned warber.
The rain still wouldn't let up so I decided to call it a morning and go home to dry off.