Ten of us joined Steve Butler for a rather breezy walk around Linda Vista Gardens and the Meadows this morning. It was good to hear lots of bird song, including from migrant blackcaps, though the many wrens won the prize for volume. But the best bird was down on the river, where a common sandpiper spent long enough preening to give everyone a chance to see it through the telescope.

Birds seen or heard: Blackbird, Blackcap, Blue Tit, Bullfinch, Buzzard, Carrion Crow, Chiffchaff, Common Sandpiper, Goldcrest, Goosander, Greenfinch, Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Kingfisher, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Robin, Sand Martin, Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk, Woodpigeon, Wren.