A wonderful day of natural connections began with a walk around Cardonald Park Farm at 5am. Best birds were a pair of Whitethroats in scrub on either side of the river (exactly where I have seen birds in the last 2 summers). Driving to work at 7am, 3 House Martins were visiting a nest under the eaves of No. 22 Cardonald Gardens (across the road from where they nested last year). Brief stops at West Ferry, Parklea and Newark Castle turned up a Grey Heron flying into the heronry above the dual-carriageway, another Grey Heron on the shore at Newark and 2 Rabbits on the grass at Parklea. Bird of the day, by the way, must be Blackbird with every lawn in the region covered with birds searching for worms for their young.
Had a meeting in Howwood in the afternoon so drove over via the Kilmacolm-Lochwinnoch Road. Five Buzzards were in the air in two groups not far from the muckle stane and a Grey Heron flapped across the minor road between Howwood and Spateston. Finally, this evening, a female Mallard was escorting 5 small ducklings on the Cart.