Another local walkabout

As soon as they sun poked its head out of the clouds at lunchtime I was out and I saw Richard from the rail bridge and we saw the female Red- breasted Merganser this time way down in the channel looking east, the Little Grebe was also present. I then travelled to hamilton Dock, nothing there but at Ness Point by the finger I saw Rob H and we spied initially 10 Purple Sandpipers and around 8 Turnstones, most of the Sandpipers were feeding at the end of the finger, but 2 were a little closer, one hopped over to the rocks just south of the finger and was giving very close views in shade and another came closer the other side sometimes in sunlight, but our best views were of 2 feeding on the seaweed encrusted rocks near the compass, 2 were here and then Rob said we had a "Baker's dozen" ie. 13 Purple Sandpipers, because we could clearly count 11 at the tip of the finger. My highest tally of the winter so far! We left to the sound of feral young children being 'marshalled' by slightly older ones by the funnel, throwing a mint condition motorcycle helmet onto the ground repeatedly, with the visor coming off, so time to leave!