An anticpated "Big day out" turned out to be just a prolonged soaking as the weather threw  everything it had at us at various sites down the west coast. A dawn visit to a Stirlingshire Black Grouse lek found four males displaying enthusiastically with two Buzzards interacting nearby. At Gartocharn, a flock of 30 geese proved to be Pink-feet rather than the hoped-for White-fronteds.
Saltcoats Harbour was checked for Purple Sandpipers, but huge waves had no doubt dispersed the usual flock. Only a single Eider was braving the heavy seas. The pond to the west of Auchenharvie Golf Course held three Scaup among the Tufter Ducks but the highlight there was a Peregrine Falcon flushed from its kills near the old castle. 
Irvine river mouth held a good selection of wildfowl including a single Goldeneye,  three Red-breasted Mergansers, a handful of Wigeon and a dozen Canada Geese. Heading back to Glasgow (finally beaten by the weather), at least two Whooper Swans were on Loch Libo.