What did you do this evening?

Tonight was the night, I was out to repair the bank to the scrape at Doxey Marshes.  I tried a couple of months ago but flooding washed it away again before it had set.  At present the water levels have dropped nicely but the bank wasn't high enough to stop the flash overflowing and keeping the scrape full.

Whilst repairing the bank I was surrounded by sand martins and swallows.  A nice addition were my first house martins of the year.  Two dunlin and a green sandpiper were hiding on the bank as I arrived, two lapwing were displaying around the edge of the flash and a common sandpiper was calling somewhere nearby.

So the bank is repaired again, lets see how long it lasts.  Hopefully water levels in the scrape will drop and waders will pour in.  May usually heralds greenshank, wood sandpiper and black-tailed godwits but waders generally start to peak form the last week of April.  Easter is here so why not pop down and see what turns up?