This Water Pipit was behind the quay on St Mary's. They breed in the mountains of southern Europe and southern temperate Asia across to China. It is a short-distance migrant moving to wet open lowlands such as marshes and flooded fields in winter.
40+ Common Scoters near the Eastern Isles
Ruddy Shelduck with a ShelDuck
Ruddy Shelducks breed in the extreme south-east of Europe and Turkey, migrate south from their breeding grounds during September