An interesting day today with a real feeling of summer transitioning into autumn. Both Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler were heard singing briefly around the back garden in the morning (another Chiffchaff was heard calling at Mugdock later in the day).
An afternoon walk around Mugdock Park produced four Meadow Pipits moving through the Khyber fields, four Swallow chicks still in a nest at the Gun Sites, a Nuthatch calling in the woods just north of there, a loose flock of Long-tailed Tits and Goldcrests near the Drowning Pond and a Blackbird feeding on berries near the Dipping Pond.