Business as usual

It's not been a classic January, too warm for that, but hopefully the forecast of cold weather for the next week or so will still be able to redeem this dreary winter. High tide today was just after 5 pm, which made for an atmospheric last hour of daylight as wildfowl pushed off the mud by the rising water flighted into the basin at dusk to roost. Today's totals included 14 each of Canada Goose and Shelduck, the wintering female Pintail, 215 Common Teal and 34 Tufted Duck. Back on Bow Creek 18 Redshank and three Common Sandpiper were in the roost with the only passerine of note was a singing Song Thrush in the Ecology Park.