Birds were fairly limited during a walk through Craigton, Glasgow today. A Rook in a tenement garden was probably the most notable.

Four Black Guillemots were close inshore off Greenock waterfront when I passed there this morning. 

Two mammals (Grey Squirrel and Roe Deer) and 25 bird species (including Kingfisher, Buzzard and Moorhen) were in the Cardonald square in heavy rain this morning.

Two Redwings were the only obvious autumn migrants that I could find during a walk around my home square this lunchtime. However four Chaffinches may have been new arrivals while 22 Black-headed Gulls and twelve Goldfinches suggested local movements.

I managed to escape a shopping trip by walking along the coastal path behind Braehead this lunchtime. Close to 100 Mallards and at least eleven Teal were on the river or roosting on the pontoons. The little park at Ferry Village held at least ten Moorhen. A dead Brown Rat was the only mammal seen.

Some of the highlights of today's bus journey to West Kilbride, walk from West Kilbride to Ardrossan and bus journey back to Glasgow were: a pod of dolphins off the Cloch; a Fieldfare among masses of Blackbirds in Kirktonhall Glen, interesting fungi there and on mown grass behind Seamill, Black Spleenwort on the wall of a lane down to the shore, a Little Egret at The Waterside, a good range of ducks on the sea (Eider, Red-breasted Merganser, Goosander, Mallard, Wigeon and Teal); good numbers of Great Black-backed Gulls; Stonechats at two sites; a Razorbill in Ardrossan Harbour; thirteen seals on rocks off Skelmorlie and forty Eider off Wemyss Bay Ferry Terminal. 

There were quite a lot of new birds present during my usual Thursday walk around Pollokshaws today. Plenty of (migrant?) Starlings were in the treetops and Robin, Wren and Great Tit were all singing in the brighter weather. Jackdaws were flying around in pairs and a group of them were mobbing a Raven which had perched on a pole behind Costa's. A female Goosander was under Shaw Bridge and three drakes (two still moulting into breeding plumage - one already there) were under the Riverford Road bridge. A Kingfisher flew upriver near there and a Wood Duck was at the confluence with the Auldhouse Burn.