LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese
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Braved 40mph+ westerly winds to visit Dunbar today, main hope was to see some Purple Sandpipers. The SOC app suggested the best sites lay NW of the station so I set off that way not surprisingly making very slow progress - some of the cliff edge paths felt decidedly unsafe. In the water were plenty of Eider and Goldeneye, a pair of Red Breasted Mergansers and some Shags on the rocks. Rock Pipits plentiful everywhere. The usual common waders were there and eventually (after checking photos) I managed to get my first Scottish Purple Sandpipers, a bird that has frustrated me for some time. I wonder if I've overlooked them in the past.