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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JCLynn" data-source="post: 1565913" data-attributes="member: 77625"><p>I hadn't seen a Sand Martin all summer until the last couple of weeks, now I'm seeing them in ones and two's along with the swallows and housemartins, which are building up in huge numbers on my local patch, some meadows having a hundred or so mixed hirundines all feeding on the gnats. Our town house martins didn't appear this year, and the only ones I've seen have been with this local 'migration' collection.</p></blockquote><p></p>