"Perfect Day": Fisher Row & Ness Point park pool

On Sunday 14th February, keeping up the Laurel and Hardy featurette names- was a perfect day. A calling Bullfinch flew over the front garden (heard only) early morning. I was keen to go back to Fisher Row and with my dysfunctional backup camera, get a better shot of a Water Rail as the wintry weather was due to end within 24 hours. With a relatively early start back on my exercise walk at Fisher Row, taking the main camera (sans 1.4X converter) and lens, I gingerly made my way down the lethally icy entrance hill and went back to the dyke just beyond the dumped cycle in the dyke. 2 Water Rails were showing reasonably well although they were mostly in the shadier areas or were obscured, Rob H, Paul and Sara arrived and Sara imemdiately spotted a Water Rail right out in the open by the snowy bank, needless to say it soon sprinted off before I had set up. Rob, Paul and Sara left to check Ness Point park pool but they showed me the formerly very obliging Water Rail(my third of the day) by the dyke near the entrance hill, it say by the blue pipe but dog walkeres forced into running back into vegeation and I didn't see it again. Returning to the original dyke, one Water Rail fed again and then went way out "south" (pity it wasn't "west" with the cutrrent Lauerl and Hardy theme!) and fed out in the open albeit in poor light, it then andered further south where the dyke ran out andina wet area just beyond it disturbed and flushed a Jack Snipe that got up and flew off west! I then tracked it back to the northern edge of the dyke and incrediby this time it flushed a Woodcock that did indeed fly "way out west!" I then went to the Ness Point park to continue my exercise walk and saw Rob, Paul & Sara again. The area immediately east of the net posts was flooded with a big pool and amongst the Gulls in the middle of the flooded were 2 elegant adult Caspian Gulls , amongst immature Herring Gulls and later 1 adult Mediterranean Gull. An impressive array of waders were present pick of the bunch was a winter- plumaged Bar- tailed Godwit feeding along the watery edge of the pool, also present was a Grey Plover feeding onb the grassy perimeter. There were also 17 Dunlin, Oystercatcher and a Redshank. Whilst in the now fenced off Net Posts compound was a Lapwing. By the northern edge of the pool was 1 immature Brent Goose, whilsy around 6 Meadow Pipits. Back home, a calling Meadow Pipit (not seen) flew south.