Ness Point August goodies

On Sunday 21 August in the early afternoon I drove down to Ness Point and parked near the Wind Turbine compound, getting out of the car, I saw the excellent immature Cuckoo fly across from the right (north) and settled on one of the perimeter fence posts. I hastily assembled my camera gear onto the tripod but as luck would have it a van drove out of the storage park behind the compound and flushed the Cuckoo, it flew into the storage compound by fortunately soon settled on a verticle metal bar and I was able to get some shots and on a container too, before something in the compound spooked it again and it was gone, despite a thorough search around the area several times (and Rob H appearing too) It was not seen. We did however see a showy Painted Lady that spent a lot of her time resting on the pavement on the NE tip of the old Gas compound. I went back and wwas able to get a few shots of her. From the compass at ness Point on the rocks were 2 exquisitely summer plumaged Turnstones and I got a few photos of these too. Whilst out to see, 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls settled on the sea and then flew south. Nothing at the Net posts whilst on the Oval were another 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls. Looking from the south end of North Parage looking into the Link's road compound (formerly car park were 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls and a fine adult winter Little Gull all on its own bang in the middle of the car park. It showed a smudges black crown hread spot behind the eye, thin black bill and legs. The Little Gull was initially asleep and the woke up and also flew off south. It hadn't been disturbed as I was viewing from the top of North Parade cliff, scoping it.