The Ness Point Little Stint

On Saturday, 11 September, a tweet from Andrew E and then from James W, I drove down to Ness Point and saw Andrew E and I first saw the fine Little Stint on the finger/ jetty with an Oystercatcher, the waves were sweeping over and it foced the bird to fly to the rocks just in front of the compass. A first here for may years. The bird was continually active, but it was surprising how often the railings got in the way, about 95% of the time. Nevertheless, I was able to get a pleasing number of pictures of this confiding but restless bird. The bird was continually feeding and we were soon joined by OFB and later Rob Hol. Later on in the garden, a tweet from Rob Hol saying a Peregrine was heading NE from his heading towards Parkhill. I looked out of the back bedroom window and looking SE, I spied the excellent Peregrine, a first sighting from the garden, at 1.56pm flying SE, a garden mega, hawking around after Dragonflies and it dashed off in an easterly direction towards Millenium Way/ Aldi superstore. Later, at 2.45pm, on a Buzzard drifted south past the garden, a male Common Darter was on one of the Bean poles and at 6.50pm, flock of 22 House Martins flew west directly over the garden. Finally, the regular Red Admiral butterfly that has been in the garden for several weeks went to roost half way up the east side of the Copper Beech tree.