RSPB Crook of Baldoon. GWE showing well on lagoon just north of car park  this morning. Regards, Mick Whitehouse & Nancy Harrison

Carsethorn to Borron Pt ; 3 whimbrel, 1 bar-tailed godwit. Carse Bay ; 2 of the whimbrel, unless there's more, relocated near to the sandy shell beach spit north of village, working the shoreline. Plus adult Mediterranean Gull. Med gull took off, rode thermals with lots of other gulls then they all decended onto farm field being cut, back of Drumburn. PJ

RSPB Crook of Baldoon ; still on lagoon just north of car park this morning. Per BirdGuides & Ivan Lang 

Nice photo courtesy of Maisie Welsh. Grateful thanks 😊

Folly Pond ; Great White Egret am. Several Black-tailed Godwits & single Greenshank. A Peregrine Falcon lifted everything including one wader. Whooper Pond ; Kingfisher. Chris & Pat Baines

Falling tide. 1 bar-tailed godwit, 2 whimbrel. Little egrets from Carse Bay. PJ

5 wheatear eventually, 4 juv/fem & looking large & erect in standing so perhaps northerners. PJ

HT. 1 black-tailed godwit, 3 wheatear on posts, feeding along shore (1 male 2 juv/fem), 15 little egret. Lots hirundine above Knockendoch Hill (Criffel) plus several buzzard hanging in the breeze. PJ

29/08 14:09 ; RN Grebe, The Wig, adult still on Loch Ryan from layby at Marian Cottage although distant; also Black-throated Diver. Per BirdGuides

GWE still at RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Lagoon north of car park. Regards, Ivan Lang

Great White Egret & Ruff both on Folly Pond @WWTCaerlaverock this afternoon. Regards, Colin Kinnear. @RareBirdAlertUK 

28/08 19:58 ; Crook of Baldoon RSPB, one again this morning. Per BirdGuides

Not much to show for a long walk (started at the Railway Station), apart from sore feet. Annan Harbour , 2 Lapwings, 1 Common Sandpiper & 1 Redshank. Walk to Annan Waterfoot , 8 Oystercatchers, 100+ Lapwings. Waterfoot Point , large numbers of Redshank 100+, 50 Cormorants, a few Curlew, 3 Little Egrets, 2 Common Sandpipers, 4 Grey Heron, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers. Chris Baines

Loch Ryan : adult still seen 10am at The Wig. Per BirdGuides

19:10, 1 pale morph flying north from Corsewall Point. Per BirdGuides

Report for yesterday, 23rd. Caerlaverock WWT 10am - noon. 1 young yellow wagtail on mud around Folly Pond. With 2 pied wagtails and they all flew off over the hide. Also 33+ black-tailed godwits and 3 greenshanks. Mick Whitehouse

Bee-eater was calling, I heard it before I saw it, flying over the top of the estuary at Piltanton Burn, at 9.45 am today, then it circled back & was heading south when it dropped low out of sight, across the golf course towards Stairhaven (Luce Bay). Literally in view for just a couple of minutes but unmistakable! I thought it was an adult but it was quite a distance away using binoculars, so not certain. Jeni Grover

4 seen from Cairnryan to Larne ferry yesterday. Per BirdGuides

20/08 20:57 ; Kirkconnell Merse, one on River Nith (19:56). Per BirdGuides

On Friday a pair of House Martins appeared to be prospecting for a nest site under the eaves of a house. This behaviour went on for sometime. Surely not in late August. There must be another reason.  Chris Baines

Thursday 18th August; Caerlaverock WWT; Green Sandpiper still on Whooper Pond. Marsh Harrier, cream-crown hunting near Saltcoat Tower. Kestrel, 5 Little Egret & 42 Black-tailed Godwit plus 40 Curlew & lots of Snipe. Powfoot : 1600-1700; 50 Dunlin, 20 Lapwing, 20 Redshank & Grey Seal. Seafield : 1730-1800; 9 Commic Tern mid channel, 40 Lapwing, 20 Redshank. Friday 19th August; Browhouses : 0900-1100; 1 Greenshank, 120 Lapwing, 110 Black-tailed Godwit,15 Ringed Plover, 40 Redshank & 4 Red-breasted Mergansers. Chris and Pat Baines

Quail on the way into work this morning! Crouching on the roadside between Milton and Crocketford. August 19, 2022 at 08:51 am SWSEIC via Twitter @RareBirdAlertUK 

Breezy conditions not whipping up any birds offshore🙁. Only a couple of sandwich tern spotted. Gillfoot Bay also usuals only, inc 1 golden plvr & 1 bartail. Ringed plvr numbers up, maybe 2-300. Nothing unusual amongst maybe 100 dunlin. PJ

14:30. Fresh looking juv probably betwixt Cowcorse & West Preston Farms, near Southerness. Heading Preston Merse or possibly RSPB Mersehead. One of the Caerlaverock birds of recent days perhaps. PJ

No Quail calling at 8am this morning but just past the turning for Drumcoltran Tower my first Wheatear of the late summer/autumn sat on the dry-stone dyke. Caerlaverock WWT; No sign of yesterday's Ruff but the Green Sandpiper showing well on the Whooper Pond with lots of Black-tailed Godwits on the Folly Pond. Star of the show was a migrant Convolvulus Hawkmoth which someone found. With only my big lens I had to step back a fair bit! Chris Baines

18 Curlew feeding in field opposite Lower Porterbelly Farm viewed from the lay-by on the A711. Called in at Edingham Loch (a few years ago a Bittern was present in winter), just a few Mallards, Mute Swan, Feral Greylag & Moorhen. A build up of Linnets in field of rye at Glaisters Farm plus 2 Ravens croaking.  Chris Baines