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BTO D&G Spring 2026 Newsletter

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Birds in D&G need your help! Message from Andy Riches; Please find bulletin link to BTO surveys in D&G. Feel free to pass it on to anyone that you think might be interested. BTO Surveys : SPRING 2026 If you have any questions about BTO surveys, then do not hesitate to get in touch. Long link ;  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DLpfy8ibbz1ADI79tEs57oB48-Lle8M4/view?usp=drivesdk
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Glossy Ibis

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2 still at WWT Caerlaverock, Folly Pond. Reserve not open to the public until Thursday through to Saturday.
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RSPB Crook of Baldoon

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Quail singing from the Airfield at the Crook, between the Crook and the buildings at Penkiln. Ivan Lang. 
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Skua

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Still offshore at Browhouses. Moving around occasionally. 1230+ Currently sat opposite cottages but on English side sandbank. Attended by GBBG. Seems to be hanging around to steal what seafood the GBBG's find to eat. Avocet still & all birds get flighty if the GS takes flight. Resting possibly on the Scottish side opposite the cottages. However, it's Browhouses foreshore, so Scotland! Image low tidish, 1430-1500.
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Browhouses

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Great Skua sat on the beach right now, I believe Scottish side. Little Egret with colour rings red H right, yellow left 4. Plus 5 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, a 1st summer Med Gull I reckon & 23 Avocet on the English side atm, one with an unreadable yellow flag on the right & red over yellow left.
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Browhouses

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Up to 24 Avocet straddling the English border today.
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Glossy Ibis

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2 still at WWT Caerlaverock Folly Pond. Lssr Whitethroat at Castle Point, Rockcliffe. Up to 5ad Osprey at Threave NTS.
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WWT Caerlaverock - Opening

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Reminder that the reserve only opens to the public on Thursday, Friday & Saturday, until further notice.
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Ruddy Shelduck

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Update 1330; Ruddy Shelduck with Shelduck flock on mudflats in front of storage tanks (Airds Point) opposite Glencaple, near Castle Corner. Flew off with a group to a more distant seaward sandbank. Robbie Purdie.
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Caerlaverock Estate

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2 Glossy Ibis still at WWT Caerlaverock, Folly Pond. Ruddy Shelduck still off Castle Corner, Caerlaverock NNR.
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Ruddy Shelduck

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On the Nith estuary off Castle Corner this afternoon.
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Glossy Ibis

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Glossy Ibis x2 reappeared at WWT Caerlaverock Folly Pond. Showing well this afternoon. Robbie Purdie.
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Browhouses

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This morning, 21 Avocets in 2 groups LHS sandbanks. Robbie Purdie.
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Geese!

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Btwn Kingholm Quay & Keltonbank, 3 Barnacle & 1 PFG seen. Injured birds maybe, or are the Barnies from Linlithgow?
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Browhouses

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13 Avocet at lunchtime+. Colin Kinnear.
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Wood Sandpiper

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On the lagoon north of car park at RSPB Crook of Baldoon.
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Sandpiper Days

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4/5 Comm Sand on the Nith at Carnsalloch. 5+ along Nith from Glencaple. Also 5 Redshank in the creek opposite the quay. Egrets, Shelduck, Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Med Pipits, Skylark, Hirundine, bubbling Curlew.
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Summer Breeze

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Swift & Skylark at Screel Hill. Hirundine cheer you up every day. Warblers Willow, Garden, Wood & Grasshopper, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat & Lesser. All the choir of summer's harmony. Spotted, Pied Flycatcher & Redstart the jewels of the woods punctuate the byways. All dancing on the Summer's Breeze. Still with us & there to be found.
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Wiggy - May report

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Keen followers of the historical revelations of the blog, will be eager to read the latest May installment of AWRTW, published yesterday, 27th June.  See;   https://awanderroundthewig.blogspot.com/2026/06/wildlife-to-rescue-bird-report-for-may.html
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WWT Caerlaverock

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2 Glossy Ibis on Folly Pond yesterday. Note that the reserve reopens to the public on 2nd July AFAIK.
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Storm-ing Petrel

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A bird from the ferry from Cairnryan to Belfast. Scottish waters... Only 1?
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Quail

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Calling bird off Teregles Rd, west Dumfries at 55.0692, - 3.7245.
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East & West

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Juv Ring Ouzel & 3 Wheatear in the Mennock Pass. 14 Black Guillemot at Portpatrick.
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Carsethorn

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Carse Bay much as ystrdy. Low tide. 25-30 Shelduck goslings & Greenshank. Up to 10 Comm Sand today. A brick red Black-tailed Godwit nice to see on Carsethorn foreshore, Goosander redheads again. Plenty of Little Egret.
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Glossy Ibis 20th

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Reported to who- & wherever, seen WWT Caerlaverock (not open to the public yet except local members Fri 26th & Sat 27th).
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Woodcockair

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Redstart (4), adult female and 3 juveniles. Estimated 3 pair in here this year and looking like they have all had a successful year. Bill Jamieson.
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WeBS : Carsethorn to Borron Pt

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Best; 1 Whimbrel maybe 2 (1 seen, 1 heard in different location), 14 Goosander redheads, 3 Sandwich Tern. Several painted lady butterflies. 1 harbour porpoise.
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Knockman Wood

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Spotted Flycatcher, Wood Warbler, Whitethroat, Garden Warbler et al .
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Greenshank - Carse Bay

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Early returning juv bird low tide where Carse Pow meets Carse Gut. Also a family of 5 Comm Sand. Also colour ringed Little Egret ; yellow left, green right. Too far for details. Family of 15-20 Shelduck goslings. 2 Ringed Plover chicks just a few days old + another maybe 2 week old chick on North Carse shingle. 4 ads. 
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Currently Seen...

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Kirkconnel Flow NNR ; Cuckoo, 2 Nightjar 22:10, 4 Woodcock, 2 Swift, 2 Stonechat. Mull of Galloway ; 5 Puffin, Black Guillemot, 60 Razorbill, 230 Guillemot, 209 Kittiwake, 2 Fulmar, 11 Gannet, Stonechat. Barn Owl off the A76.
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Willow Tit

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East of New Galloway town 17th.
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