Deerness

I headed along to the coast at Point of Ayre and Newark Bay hoping to get my first wheatears and bonxies of the year and saw both. One wheatear but four bonxies. Three of them were fighting over a carcase on the sea- I think it was a drake eider duck but hard to tell as it was far out and lots of bobbing up and down in the waves. Other birds- 130+ golden plover, turnstones, ringed plover etc.
The small island in the distance is called the Horse of Copinsay, and the island of Copinsay is just out of sight to the right (see in extra photos). Small islets off larger islands are often called the Calf of Whatever- like the Calf of Man, but I don't know why this one is a horse rather than a calf. Deerness is from Old Norse meaning a dry headland- nothing to do with deer.