Wilson's Phalarope on the Isle of Wight

We get a text from Brian do we fancy a trip to the Isle of Wight to see the Wilson's phalarope that had been there for the last 5 days, it's a bit of a chance to take but if you don't give it a go you don't see any thing.
So up at 4 o'clock to meet up with Brian for the drive down to the ferry, we book in & the ferry goes at 1/4 to 8, it's a 30 minute trip over to the Island.
We find the spot where the bird has been reported within a few minutes of getting off the ferry, we park up & find the target bird straight away, it keeps going back & forth into a little inlet, we stay watching the bird for a couple of hours, it gets spooked a few times & flies to other parts of the water, it comes in & out of view , we get great scope views of it but it is hard for us to get a good photo of it due to all the shrubbery

around.

On the pond are a few Bl- tail Godwits
& a single Redshank that the Phalarope seems to stay close to. about 20 birders are here looking at the bird by now, one of them is Dave Aitken who has come down from Yorkshire  & works at Bempton cliffs, he tells us he is on Bubo & is round about the same number of birds as Brian just a few in front of  Jimmy & me, we have a good old talk to him a really nice fellow.
Time to leave now, we take a quick drive to Shanklin it's only 30 minutes away, just to have a look to see what it's like there really a bit of sight seeing for a future visit.

So another lifer in the bag,  237 year ticks so far this year.We are booked on the 12, 30 ferry back so we have to go now, well worth the trip to see a great looking female Wilson's Phalarope.I have never been over to the Isle of Wight before but I will be back for a good look round when I bring my wife Jean here for a hoilday later this year.