Spent a frustrating but quite enjoyable afternoon wandering around some of the atlas tetrads in south Glasgow. The weather steadily improved as the afternoon wore on, and it ended up being really quite a nice day to be out. However in spite of visiting eight tetrads and recording 33 species, I made virtually no impact on any of the tetrad totals. The problem was not "the wrong type of snow" but "the wrong type of birds". Well actually the birds themselves were fine (including some locally hard-to-find species such as Dipper, Goosander, Redwing, Fieldfare and Grey Heron) - they just weren't in the right tetrads.The tetrads visited were: NS56 G (Pollok to Crookston), NS56 H (Cardonald), NS56 K (Pollok Park south), NS56 L (Pollok Park north), NS56 M (Govan), NS56 Q (Langside) and NS56 R (Pollokshields). The full species list for the afternoon was: Mute Swan, Mallard, Goosander, Tufted Duck, Grey Heron, Moorhen, Coot, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, Pied Wagtail, Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Redwing, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Fieldfare, Dipper, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Rook, Starling, House Sparrow, Chaffinch and Goldfinch (33 species).