Spent the day marking at the Dining Room table. A juvenile Robin just moulting into its adult plumage was the only company I had, apart from a white butterfly which floated through the garden.
This evening, a short walk through Pollok Park produced a Hooded Crow x Carrion Crow hybrid at the pond in North Wood and Goldfinch and Swallow at the Riding School. Three more Swallows were feeding over the Cartha RFC pitch during the evening match as a Great spotted Woodpecker called nearby. Most curious sighting was of four people furtively loading material from the edge of North Wood into a car. They obviously didn't like me watching what they were doing, but I couldn't work out what they were collecting. Whatever it was, they had collected an enormous laundry bag full. Meanwhile what I think are Ash trees beside the Haggs Castle entrance to the park were laden with keys.