Five Swifts were screaming over the west end of Greenock this morning as I was heading to do my belated WeBS count at Murdieston Park. Later, three more were screaming above the traffic on Kilmarnock Road through Shawlands, Glasgow. In between, I checked on the two Mute Swan pairs on Cowdenknowes Dam (three newly-hatched cygnets and two unhatched eggs) and Town Dam (five unhatched eggs). A little later, I found a male Whitethroat singing from scrubby wasteground beside Craigton Road, Govan. Elsewhere, male Chaffinches were singing at Halfway and Woodlands (both Glasgow). My local birds here in south Cardonald seem to have stopped singing.

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