The loneliness of the long distance migrant

This Grey Plover will probably end up wintering in the Western Isles, having bred in the high Arctic. Others of its species that have bred high inside the Arctic Circle will winter in Chile, South Africa or New Zealand depending precisely where they bred. One of the longest distance migrants that there is.
A blustery day again today but a good excuse to stay in for most of the day and un-flat-pack those Ikea purchases. Hurrah!
All bar one safely now in place. Give them their due, the stuff fits together well. Many is the time with an MFI box years ago, you would end up missing a crucial piece or, worse, have some pieces spare at the end that you were sure were an integral part of the object but haven't managed to fit in place. Then you took it apart and it didn't quite fit together as well as it should the second and the whole thing became a nightmare.
My reward for doing those jobs was when I went to our ruin to get a piece of shelving, I flushed a Woodcock from within the ruin. A garden tick that makes 46 species now.