A lunchtime drive to Largs via the South Inverclyde and North Ayrshire moors produced some interesting birds including singing Skylark and Reed Bunting, a Great Black-backed Gull feeding on a sheep carcass, six Swifts over a shelter belt and a male Whinchat alarm-calling from a telephone wire. Largs itself held two more Swifts plus a Pied Wagtail accompanied by two juveniles. Heading home, a dead Hedgehog was on the A737 east of Howwood.