No sign of any Swifts over Queen's Park today, although some good records included singing Chiffchaff, Blackcap (four) and Whitethroat. A female Mallard on the small pond was desperately trying to keep a Lesser Black-backed Gull from devouring her last remaining duckling. Down on the main pond, a pair of Coots had seven chicks freshly out of the nest. This evening, two Oystercatchers flew high over south Cardonald heading west (downriver) calling and interacting as they went.