Around 70 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were coming to bread in Queen's Park Recreation Ground this morning. They were arriving at top speed from all directions, making me think that this is a daily occurrence. 

A single Stock Dove and two Grey Wagtails were the avian highlights of a walk around Langside this afternoon. Plant highlight was Crimson Clover found in the Queen's Park Poetry Rose garden. 

Birds were few and far between in Pollokshaws today. Late summer flowers included Redshank and Confused Michaelmas Daisy. 

There was little time for birding during today's trip to Edinburgh. Interesting plants included Smooth Sow Thistle.

A quick check of Queen's Park boating pond today found the female Tufted Duck (and a companion) now with four large young and the Little Grebe pair escorting two small chicks. 

Highlight of a belated WeBS count in Greenock today was a single Goldeneye on Murdieston Dam. The species, formally regular there is now less than annual. A little later, a very wet Lunderston Bay held over fifty Sandwich Terns and twenty Greenfinches.

Few birds were active when I walked through Pollokshaws this afternoon. Swifts are still being reported from north Glasgow, but I haven't had one here in the south for over a week.