Sand Martin new for the year

Another post-work visit on a glorious spring afternoon and , a week after the first showing, I finally connected with Sand Martin, just a single bird at the basin, probably one of the breeders, or their progeny from last year as it visited the breeding pipe in the lock wall a couple times; no sign of the four Little Ringed Plovers on the Pura Foods peninsula but there was a single bird on the basin at dusk. Common Teal numbers continue to drop with just 34 present today, other wildfowl included two pairs of Canada Geese, five Shelduck and 34 Tufted Duck. The only other notables were two Common Sandpipers at Bow Creek and a singing Linnet near the entrance to the ecology park.