Tuesday morning add 2 p-b brent geese. Afternoon. Stranraer harbour; 1 r-td, 4 black guillemot, 1 guillemot, 4 little grebe, 3 gc grebe, 2 goldeneye, 2 drake scaup, 1 rock pipit, 3 rbm. Stranraer; Loch Ryan from Broadstone Road (dead end road). c250 scaup inc 1 hybrid male, 1 tufted male & 1 female tufted/hybrid?, 2 horned grebe, 1 drake l-t duck (resplendent), c25 eider, c20 com scoter, 3 rtd, 2 shag plus 10+ gc grebe, goldeneye, rbm. Marvellous murmuration from 1645 too. Good spot. PJ

31/01 16:46 ; Great Egret, WWT Caerlaverock. One flew over towards Saltcot Merse Observatory (15:30). Per BirdGuides

31/01 : Greater Scaup, 1st-winter drake still from Sir Peter Scott Hide (13:14). Per BirdGuides

31/01 13:15 : Caerlaverock WWT. Male again from Avenue Tower (13:12). Per BirdGuides

Tuesday morning. Very blustery which I think has blown most birds into hiding. Around Bishop Burn & west, off Cairnryan Road : 2 scaup, 3 twite, 1 rock pipit. 😳🤷PJ

I've attached a pic of the 2 Bitterns together (neither in focus!) at Castle Loch this morning. Cheers Dave Pullan. Ed. Thanks to Dave P 😊👍

Wigtown LNR - male HH quartering the marsh looking east from the hide. No GND found in usual or other recently reported locations Loch Ken. A flock of wild goats was all that I spotted along the A712 to Newton Stewart. Unlucky me! PJ

I'd agree with leucistic Common Gull, which I think was photographed at closer range at Loch Ryan in the last year... I think. Gavin

A good 50+ still at Ken-Dee Marshes today but difficult to find see on far, undulating ground. Found by CK viewed from first farm gate south of the RSPB car park. No time to find Russian bird if present 😟 PJ

2 Bitterns standing 20 yards apart at Vendace Bay, Castle Loch, Lochmaben this morning. Also 1 Great White Egret. Dave Pullan. Ed. Great that someone else has seen the 2 👍PJ

Bird sightings from yesterday, 28th.  Bishop Burn, Stranraer – the highlight was a Red-necked Grebe out on the bay at low tide. Also good numbers of Scaup, a couple of Black Guillemot & Slavonian Grebe. The Wig Loch Ryan ; summary =  all three common divers present, Slavonian Grebe & Long-tailed Duck the highlights. The most interesting bird was a pure white gull out with a raft of Common's & Black-headed in the main channel. First picked up on the tide line with common gull, with clearly pink legs, & a pale base to the bill & dark tip. It quickly disappeared but reappeared out in the channel an hour later. There seemed to be an accentuated & long primary projection, the bird did fit a 2 nd or 3 rd CY Iceland Gull. However the size seemed a bit on the small size, possible the bird report in October at Stranraer as a possible leuctisic Common Gull. Thoughts appreciated . Ivan Lang

29/01 12:42 ; Caerlaverock WWT, 1st-winter drake on Whooper Pond. Via BirdGuides

Bittern showing well viewed from jetty with info boards alongside B7020. Rob Purdie. Ed. Look for 2 birds!

Great White Egret on jetty rhs of hide on Castle Loch. Seen from car park on A709 11.15am. Rob Purdie. Ed. A favoured place if undisturbed .

20:45 : Great Egret, Castle Loch NR; one again from road (14:30). Per BirdGuides

Cairnryan ; one offshore. Per BirdGuides

One of the Bittern at Castle Loch yesterday. Result of the very distant view point. Seen again today via BirdGuides. P

The elusive Smew returns. Castle Loch ; adult drake again (11:30). Per BirdGuides

Male traversing Wigtown LNR & RSPB Crook of Baldoon this afternoon. Per BirdGuides

I saw something I've never seen before today at Point of Lag - a Snipe swimming on the sea! very strange. Paul Donald

Hooded Crow still around on Brownrigg Loaning street lamp near Ciceley Commercials this afternoon. Also many thanks to Colin & Pete for the heads up on the Bittern sighting - a lifetime first for me. Robbie Purdie

Last years bird seams to have hung around. Junction of Brownrigg Loaning and Annan Road favouring the top of street lights. Colin Kinnear

RSPB Mersehead, female still from Meida Hide. Per BirdGuides

Both birds seen separately, different locations but same zone, at the same time from around 1450 until 1510 at least. PJ

That's 2 birds! c1250, second bird flew across scope view coming out of Vendace Bay, landed & disappeared, of course. See map for approx location. Birds seen either side of the marker, in a "zone" if you like. P Bittern location

Castle Loch. Showing well 1225 in reed area within Vendace Bay but island/castle promontory side. Also, viewed from memorial benches at northern, bowling green end. At last! No Smew though. P