A trip for early spring migrants and watch winter visitors

On Sunday 8th March, I took a look down Fisher Row, near the bowl, I saw and heard a trio of Treecreepers and a Firecrest plus several Long-tailed Tits and another Firecrest nearby. Walking back I saw Andrew E. and I carried on back by the entrance track, a Buzzard flew just west of the track and was sitting on posts by the horse paddocks. I saw by the dyke just past the entrance track another Firecrest in the scrub. A fine adult male White Wagtail briefly alighted on the track behind me and flew into the horse field. I couldn't relocate it, although a couple were in the horse field. As I was looking I saw an additional female Grey Wagtail in the horse paddocks that then flew south. there was also a lot of Redwings heard flying over and I saw 1 or 2 birds. Back at ness point in the afternoon, I was pleased to count at least 11 Purple Sandpipers (my highest persnal tally this winter), on the rocks near the Compass plus the blue-ringed Rock Pipit seen on the shelf just south of there at 2.30pm