Decided to spend another of my daily exercise walks exploring my home square in south Cardonald. Altogether 31 species were encountered, the highlight being a singing Whitethroat between the house and the river (the first time I have heard one there for at least three years). Moorhen and Mallard chicks continue to run the gauntlet of the local Magpies, Carrion Crows and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Unfortunately, the lovely leucistic female Mallard which was escorting four ducklings yesterday had none today. A male House Sparrow visited the garden for the second time in two days (yesterday he was bathing in the pond and today he was feeding from the sunflower hear feeder). They are really rare here, although common just across the road, 200metres away. The river was particularly languid today with fallen petals and catkins lying on the hardly-moving water.