17th April - cloudy, breezt ~15mph at times, 15C, light drizzle evening

Stanford reservoir; the main event today was the launch of the Tern rafts by the STW volunteers, well there should have been 2 launched, but technical issues meant only one today. Hopefully the second will follow soon as a Common Tern has been seen already on a couple of days.

When I left a quick look at the dam produced a single Common Sandpiper, first of the Spring.  In the evening I returned to see if the raft was still afloat and where left - thankfully it was - so all i s well with that one (we hope).  A check on the dam when I arrived produced a single Common Sandpiper, but a look again when I was leaving produced 4 Common Sandpipers together on the dam.  A good number of newly arrived hirundines were in too, busy feeding, soon to spread out to their breeding territories.