Very lean pickings over the past week or so

Over the past week or so I have been down to Carlton Marshes and only seen 4 Green Sandpipers flying north west over my head (no sign of Garganey or Wood sands), North Beach on 3 occasions (no sign of Little Gull), Lowestoft Dip farm for Spotted Fly by Tee 7, unfortunately this wasn't numbered soo I had to guess where this was looking at appropriate habitat in any case I didn't see it, Southwold 20th August evening (no sign of RB Shrike in 80 minute vigil, although 3 Lesser Whitethroats appeared and cleared off before I could get pics of them) and in the garden on the evening of Friday 21 August, a fine Southern Hawker flew around in the high winds and settled in the flowering Chery tree