A morning walk through Leverndale and along the Cart as far as Hawkhead produced some additions to three of the five 1km squares the route covers. These now stand as follows:
Silverglade (Rosshall to Cardonald Library) - 62spp
Crookston Castle and Brock Burn - 42 + Willow Warbler = 43
Bull Wood / Leverndale Hospital - 47
White Cart at Hawkhead Estate Park - 55 + Stock Dove = 56
Ralston / Crookston - 46 + Great spotted Woodpecker = 47
Other highlights included Kingfishers at three sites and a female Goosander with 7 flightless young (strongly indicative of local breeding). Non-birds were flowering Cranesbill and two confiding Roe Deer, both on the hospital farm.
Highlights of an evening walk between Saltcoats Harbour and Stevenston Point included House Martins still feeding young in nests on flats behind Lidl, a family of Little Grebes on Auchenreoch Loch, 42 Ringed Plovers, 16 Sanderlings and two Dunlin on the sands south of the point and a flock of 14 Swifts back at Saltcoats. Another eight Swifts were over High Monkscastle Farm Pond. Also there were two Sand Martins, a Litte Grebe and a family of Moorhens.