Lowestoft local patching

On Monday 28th September, I started out at Links road car park, where I soon saw 2 Purple Sandpipers on the beach, quite confiding, they were continually flushed by walkers, dogs, runners and cyclists and would often fly up to the seawall. One bird soon had enough, but the 2nd bird had a slightly dodgy left leg. It remained on the sea wall, the the groynes just north of there. Having to get my brake light changed as one was out, I was waiting at the North Quay Retail park, a Siskin flew over calling. Back out after that, Gunton ORT was very quiet with several groups of Siskin flying west overhead (45 & 30) and 3 Treecreepers in large elderberry bushes along the north end of the track. 1 tree was blown down by the path just east of the "Greenish" copse. James W had tweeted saying he had a YBW just north of the Oval, so parking back at Link's road car park, I was just heading out when the sceeching of Parakeets revealed 2 Ring- necked Parakeets flying north along Gunton Cliff then then flew south then north again heading back towards Hubbards' Loke. There were 3 Chiff- Chaffs calling and along with some LT Tits one Chiff- Chaff chased out a smaller Warbler, the excellent Yellow- browed Warbler into the large hawthorn, where all the ID features seen were in a minutes observation, creamy supercilia, double wing bar small size, olive above and white below. After lunch I viisted Ness Point and saw a female Stonechat by the posts by the funnel and aon a brief seawatch an adult Mediterranean Gull flying north. I finished seawatching at 3.30pm James W has sen a Ring Ouzel half way along the railway line at Gunton ORT, I went back initially no luck but bumping into Chris A we walked it again and in hawthorn bushes we heard a very soft 'chaking' initially no sign Chris A left but hoing back from the same area, a fine female Ring Ouzel flew up and perched briefly at the top of th bushes and then flew back and was heavily obscured. She then flew into the fieeld and started feeding and then made her way towards the Woodland burail northern grassy perimeter where she fed for sometime before being harried by a Magpie and she flew into the Woodland burial copse. At this point Gus H had amazingly tweeted to say he had seen a BBA fling south off Lowestoft at 3.47pm, how I wished I ghad contined seawatcing at Ness Point for a further twenty minutes, is the understatement of the day. After that I gave up.