Walked from Erskine Golf Club to Longhaugh Point and back this morning. Non-birding highlights were my first Orange-Tip of the spring (there were others in the garden and along the Cart later in the day), a few Rabbits here and there and flowering Comfry, Mustard Garlic, Cuckoo Flower and Sweet Cicely. Birding highlights were many, but included my first Sedge Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler and Sandwich Tern of the year, passage birds in the form of Black tailed Godwits, Dunlin (moulting into summer plumage), Ringed Plover and four White Wagtails, and notable residents in the form of Shelduck, Buzzard, Linnet and Skylark. Most intriguing sighting was of a Wheatear along one of the field edges, in almost exactly the same spot where I saw one last time I visited the site.
Later in the day, a walk along the Cart and Brock Burn produced two male Blackcaps singing loudly (and one showing well).
Total bird count for the day was 50 (Greylag Goose, Shelduck, Mallard, Cormorant, Shag, Pheasant, Grey Heron, Buzzard, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Curlew, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Moorhen, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Sandwich Tern, Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, Skylark, Meadow Pipit, White Wagtail, Swallow, Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Wheatear, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Starling, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch and Linnet) [14,948].