With today being Chris's birthday and it also being virtually the longest day of the year, I decided to try and see both the sunrise and the sunset. Consequently I was in position near the flagpole in Queen's Park at 04:30 (along with a group of good-natured young people who appeared to have been partying there all night). Sunrise, when it arrived, was barely perceptible due to heavy, low cloud. However the rain did stay away and I spent the next three hours walking the perimeter of what looks like becoming my new "patch".Some of the notable finds along the way included Stock Doves singing at two sites, a pair of Oystercatchers flying over Hutcheson's playing fields and two cockerels crowing (one in Queen's Park and one in Pollok Park). The rest of the day was very wet, and when the time came for sunset, that too was obscured by low cloud and rain.