Reed Warbler singing, this morning. The first record for there as far as I'm aware. Slightly odd that it was well up in a hawthorn and cherry tree/shrub rather than the sedge/reed habitat. Gavin Chambers.

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Golden Eagle over the southern fields heading east 15:00. Ivan Lang.

1 Reed Warbler singing & showing well this morning from Phragmites reed bed at the side of main road near town sign. Also Garden Warbler. Chris and Pat Baines.

WWT Caerlaverock. 1 on Folly Pond this pm. Acc to BirdGuides.

26th May. Churring bird from 22:40 at map location, east side of Auchenhay Hill, off Kirkgunzeon road from Caulkerbush. Continuous for several minutes at least, though bird seemed to be moving location. 6 different locations tried but no other birds heard. Usual place produced nothing so perhaps tonight's bird is the same bird from 24th moved 🤔. A bit chill mind.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/JiZiATNy294Hy8Pb8 PJ

Drake Am. Wigeon showing well again this afternoon, no sign of the  Spoonbill or PFG we saw on Tues. Port William, 1 Lssr Whitethroat heard in the scrub + Com Whitethroats. The highlight here was 2 Otters on the rocks, an adult & cub viewed from the café. Chris and Pat Baines.

Carstramon Wood yesterday. Singing birds: 3 Redstarts, 4 Wood Warblers, 7 Pied Flycatchers. Kirkcudbright: Kookaburra pair seen from garden, 20 house martins from Dee bridge. Barry O'Dowd.

WeBS, c250 Rngd Plvr, c50 Dunlin & 1 Turnstone a surprise. Otherwise virtually birdless. Carse Bay, 1 Whimbrel having a break, perhaps the "regular"? One pair of the nesting Rngd Plvr have hatched 3 fluff balls which is a veritable miracle for the locality but I think there's another with a scrape somewhere around the spit. Good to see the nest zone "cordoned off" & I didn't think the Oystercatchers either would have a chance when I found the 1 egg last time I was there. There's 2 now & the scrape cleverly identified by a local stone artist. Reassuring that someone does actually give a toss! PJ

Bob's Loch, Shancastle, nr Kirkland/Moniaive. 2 Mute Swans & 1 Whooper Swan. Cuckoo calling. Black-headed Gull, Greylag, Canada Goose, Mallard all with young. At least 3 pairs of Little Grebe. 5 Tufted Duck 4m, 1f. Coot, Moorhen. Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Willow Warbler & Whitethroat. Reed Bunting, Pied Wagtail. 2 Swift, Swallows & Sand Martins. Cairn Head nr Moniaive. Whinchat, Stonechat, Tree Pipit, Linnet, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Reed Bunting, Cuckoo calling. Chris Sutton.

Showing well on pond at Wigtown Harbour. Mick Whitehouse & Nancy Harrison.

Auchenhay Hill, 24th. 1 churring bird at 22:10 but just short bursts. Sustained churring at 22:50+ & only distant churring at around 23:20+ for a short time. Bird not seen & no roding Woodcock at all! PJ

Pied Flycatchers and Wood Warblers at Wood of Cree this afternoon but I failed to detect Redstart. Nigel Willits. 

Drake American Wigeon re-found 1600 today Wigtown LNR. Also Spoonbill on the Merse. Chris & Pat Baines.

Back on the merse at Wigtown LNR acc to BirdGuides.

Report from a visitor that the American Wigeon was on Wigtown Wetlands this morning. Ivan Lang.

Sat in the back garden today & at 12:30 a Golden Eagle was circling over the house being mobbed by a Buzzard. By the time I got the camera out it was moving away towards Milton. Chris & Pat Baines.

Browhouses. 1 from 1st cottage. According to BirdGuides.

Single dotterel seen at c680m on Cairnsmore of Fleet plateau on 20 May. Good view as bird walked away then flew. Martin Kirkbride.

Long-tailed Duck still at Broadstone, Loch Ryan today although well off-shore. Nigel Willits. 

Tue 16th May, 1100-1545. 1 pale morph Arctic Skua close in. Usual passage of Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes, Sandwich & Common Terns, plus Wheatear, Stonechat & Kestrel.  Loch Ryan , Broadstone car park, 1 lingering LTD with Eider.  Bishop Burn , 7 Ringed Plover. Chris & Pat Baines.

BirdGuides reports a drake at Luce Bay... but it flew off 😳

Spotted Flycatcher & Nuthatch at Balkail Glen Wood ("The Glen"), Glenluce this afternoon. Nigel Willits. 

From Glenimshaw NS837097 to the end of the track past the Beam Engine; Ring Ouzel ♂️, Whinchat - ♂️, Grey Wagtails, Merlin ♂️, Cuckoo, 8 Dippers, Hen Harrier ♂️ & ♀️, 2 Com Sandpipers, 4 Buzzards , 4 Red Kites, 2 Red Grouse, Wheatear ♂️, Willow Warblers & Meadow Pipits many. I walked about a mile up the Glen had Dipper Grey Wagtail Cuckoo Merlin there & then drove to a car park on the left below Wether Hill where I heard the Ring Ouzel then turned down past the Museum & parked by a cattle grid at the end of a very rough track & had Whinchat & Hen Harrier there. Anna White. 

Pair of Common Sandpipers at Blackloch, Gatehouse of Fleet (yesterday evening). Nigel Willits. 

My brother has found this Lesser Scaup at Castle Loch, Lochmaben within the last hour. Initially in Vendace Bay but since flown around towards hide. Everything said to look good for LS rather than a hybrid. Gavin Chambers

Cuckoos. Watched one in Scots Pine (car park end) through scope from fence while another was calling from behind (Nith end). Rob Purdie. Dunragit: 1 cuckoo beside A75 & 2 Canada Geese with 2 newly hatched young at Glenwhan Gardens. David Hawker. 

Big Water of Fleet viaduct. Rob Wadsworth. 

Male Garganey showing well on Lagoon North of car park. Currently sleeping on small exposed island. Gavin Chambers. 

Kirkcudbright - first swift there this morning, 12th May. David Hawker. 

Male Garganey still present this morning initially on the Lagoon north of CP but flew south towards the other lagoon. Ivan Lang. 

Mull of Galloway by the lighthouse this morning, around the big white surrounding wall then on the dykes. Not shy. Iain? at the Mull. 

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Spoonbill headed north over merse towards Bladnoch 08.00. Ivan Lang. 

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Drake Garganey reappeared this afternoon with a Greenshank on the lagoon north of car park, thanks to a visitor. Ivan Lang.

Well I hope someone got to see the bird at Caerlaverock WWT... yesterday! Via BirdGuides today. 

Physgill Glen. Singing Grasshopper Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher, yesterday. Paul Donald. Canonbie. Cuckoo, Spotted Flycatcher and Swift on passage. John Buchan. 

BirdGuides says still at the mouth of the river Bladnoch, Wigtown Bay LNR.

Sun 7th May 12-13:30. 9 Whimbrel, 200+ mixed flock Ringed Plover & Dunlin (equal numbers of each), Guillemot, Little Egret, 5 Sandwich Tern. Mike Smith.

Stenhouse Wood. Wood, Garden, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Pied Flycatcher, GSW, Treecreeper, Nuthatch. Skylark & Meadow Pipit heard on surrounding fields.  Circuit NE from Tynron. Willow Warbler, Chiffcaff, Blackcap & Whitethroat, 4 singing male Redstart, Green Woodpecker (heard), GSW, Treecreeper and Nuthatch. Cuckoo (heard) Heron, Oystercatcher over, Jay, Raven. Chris Sutton. RSPB Wood of Cree. Warbler fest, in the main CP greeted with a number of Blackcaps as well as a Garden Warbler in full song and a brief Grasshopper Warbler. Around the trail plenty of Wood Warbler song mixing in with Pied Flycatcher and the odd Redstart. Tree Pipit was present in open scrubby area at the top of the trail. Whilst a couple of Cuckoo were calling. Ivan Lang. 

11 Scaup (6 drake) & 1 Whimbrel on the rising tide in Carse Gut. 6 Whimbrel off Carsethorn & 2 Lit Egret off Hogus Pt. Breeding Dipper at Kirkhouse Fishery. Southerness; 13 Whimbrel, 16 Sandwich Tern, RTD & Com Scoter offshore. PJ

Crook of Baldoon. BirdGuides says the bird is present on lagoon north of car park this morning.

Sedge & Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Med Pipit, Bullfinch, Linnet over, Mute 2, Whooper 1 (a lone Whooper Swan spent much of early 2022 here too. Same bird?), Lit Grebe 2, Bl-h Gull - at least 11 nests, Greylag + goslings, Tufted Duck 3m 1f. Chris Sutton.

Garden Warbler at junction of the trails. Redstart and Pied Flycatcher just before first gate. Cuckoo calling from up the hill. Rob Wadsworth. 

Also as well as the Garganey, the Spoonbill was right out at the mouth of the Bladnoch as the tide was rising, but best viewed from the hide at Wigtown Wetlands. Also from the hide 4 Swift over the county buildings in Wigtown. In the same area a female Cuckoo was calling from the reeds with lots of Sedge Warbler and a single Reed Warbler sporadically singing. Ivan Lang. 

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Showing well on north lagoon. No sign of Spotted Redshank or Wood Sandpiper though. Rob Wadsworth. 

At least 50 Divers 0730 & presumed all RTD, given the nearest ones were. 1 distant Skua spcs chasing terns but impossible to ID apart from likely Arctic or Pom, though Arctic are renowned for chasing the terns. At HT, the Point had 9 Whimbrel & several Gannet drifted by close in, sat on the becalmed rising ocean. A visit to the 13th golf course tee roost rocks to scan through the Dunlin revealed just 2 summery Sanderling & 7 Whimbrel, probably from the Point turned up before all were driven off by dogs off lead. No respect there then for the wild world diversity David Attenborough would have such non-believers embrace & change their planetary perspective, and therefore such ignorant behaviour. PJ

Spotted Redshank and Wood Sandpiper on lagoon north of car park at 16.30. Gavin Chambers. 1 Whimbrel over on the 3rd. RW. 

At Glenim, Mennock Pass. Colin Kinnear.

15:30. Clear whitish underbelly & dark neck band tells me Arctic Skua. First noticed chasing probable tern mid-Solway from Southerness. Then proceeded with singular intent at height east up the Solway. PJ

14:00-15:20. 6 Sanderling, mostly summer plumage with 1 still quite winter. Also 1 Grey Plover. 1♀️ Wheatear returning to the 13th golf course tee. 15+ Sandwich Tern back at the lighthouse &  Com Whitethroat into Gillfoot Bay. PJ

16 Whimbrel up to HT, plus 7 Sandwich Tern & large numbers mxd Dunlin/Rgd Plvr passing. Several+ RTD offshore, 5 Gannet. 12 Whimbrel at Southerness golf course 13th tee rocks roost. Some may have been previously at the point. PJ

Common Sandpiper by the Cree. Pair of Dippers taking food to nest by Penkiln Burn. Pair of Whitethroats nesting at Knockman Wood. Redstart & Pied Flycatcher in the wood (yellow route). Norman Fry.

One seen in Kirkgunzeon, Monday. Via BirdGuides. 

45 Scaup plus drake Tufted Duck & hybrid. Pair of Eider flew south past the village & a Black-tailed Godwit before the tide turned earlier today. Gavin Chambers.

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. c13:45 drake has reappeared on lagoon south of car park. Ivan Lang.

5 Whimbrel, Fisherman House between Glenluce and Stairhaven. Rob W. 

Point of Lag - 6 Whimbrels, Bar-tailed G, 5 Sand Terns & 4 active Shag nests yesterday. Garlieston Bay - 5 Sand Terns. St Ninian's Cave - 3 Black Guillemots & Manx Shearwater on Sat. Isle of Whithorn harbour - Sunday, leucistic Herring Gull & 5 Sand Terns + Lssr Whitethroat singing there ystrdy. Paul Donald.

4 Com Whitethroats, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow & Wood Warblers. Also several Grasshopper Warblers & 1 Redstart heard but not seen. 1 Cuckoo seen but 3 heard. Same bird moving around?, I know not. Rob Wadsworth.

3 Reed Warblers, 2 Whitethroats, 1 Sedge Wabler and 1 House Martin. Anna White. 

Whimbrel count now 27, if not more towards Redkirk Point, plus 3 Avocet & 2♀️ & 1♂️ Wheatear on merse. One Avocet was driven off by presumably the male of the other pair. PJ

12:00-15:00. 2 Avocets once dog & owner gone from shore. 7 Whimbrel & mxd Ringed Plvr & Dunlin flock through. 6 Pintail, several RBM, c500 pfg in field to left. Sth of Gretna, several Goosander, 100+ Kittiwake but moved on. PJ