Some very welcome autumn sunshine brought a Small Tortoiseshell, two Painted Ladies and a Silver Y to the late-flowering plants in the Scottish Poetry Garden, Queen's Park this afternoon. 

A yaffling Green Woodpecker was the highlight of a walk around Portmoak Moss. Also notable were Pink-footed Geese moving overhead and at least three Chiffchaffs calling from cover. Fungi included Pale Stagshorn, Candlesnuff, Sulphurtuft and Common Puffball. Later, a Mandarin Duck, a Cayuga Duck and a Red Squirrel were at Lochore Meadows.

A walk over to Maxwell Park and back this afternoon found a good range of grassland fungi on the verges along Dumbreck Road. Birds included two Goosanders on the park pond and the drake Tufted Duck there well through its moult into breeding plumage. The Mallards, as elsewhere, are displaying and pairing off already. 

A juvenile Common Gull was roosting with five Black-headed Gulls on Queen's Park Boating Pond (the Lesser Black-backeds must roost elsewhere) this evening.

At least two Jays were calling along the main drive into Pollok Park today. Also notable were a Speckled Wood and a white butterfly on the wing. 

A few Herring Gulls were among the Lesser Black-backs and Black-headeds in Queen's Park today.

A Buzzard swooped across the M8 at Carnbroe as I was heading home late afternoon.