Buff-breasted Sandpiper The water drops at Cresswell due to a storm, for the first time in two years and all of a sudden there are waders to be seen, And in with them is an excellent Buff-breasted Sandpiper, unable to go on its first day, I'm up there at first light and although the bird takes a while to show, it does allow me to get close enough for a few shots.

DotterelA phone call while stuck in traffic becasue, all the local roads were flooded alerted me to a Dotterel at the very pace I was going to. Eventually I arrived on site and saw the bird very well but I had no camera gear as the rain had been so hard and didn't want to take the risk of it getting soaked, so the bird had to wait till the following day for me to take its picture. It was well worth the wait.

Storm Petrel I had only been once to a Storm Petrel ringing session and that was because of a phone call in the middle of the night from the old now defunct grapevine, in July 1994 to go and see the regular, at the time, Swinhoe's Petrel. So a chance to have another go and I was there. Far from perfect conditions but one was caught and probably a couple more seen.