6.45am, light rain and low cloud and as I put the dog outside I heard a Dotterel overhead. After the calls ceased I dashed indoors and put on a CD-ROM and listened to the Dotterel flight calls to confirm what I had just heard. Amazingly, this happened on 12th October last year, although then it was lighter and clearer and I saw the bird flying over. In April 2007, I heard one over the garden late at night.