A few birthday birds

On Tuesday 15 November, I visited Ness Point and saw 3 Purple Sandpipers on the finger landward side. They walked over top the rocks to go to roost and I counted additional birds, so 5 Purple Sandpipers seen in total. as there was a very strong gusty SSE wind5, and a pair of very close Red- breasted Mergansers flew south, plus 35 Pintail flying south, 2 Dunlin S & 20 Teal flew south. At the end of Hamilton Road I joined Andrew E and we saw 4 Dunlin and 2 Snipe flying south. Flocks 0f 40 and 35 Brent Geese also flew south. One final thought, it has now been 5 years since Ricky F passed, but he is never forgotten.