If you haven't already... There's soo much to bleat about I'm afraid. Say No To Berwick Bank Windfarm - Scottish Seabird Centre [ https://www.seabird.org/conservation/say-no-to-berwick-bank-wind-farm ]. Still worth sending subsequent to the decision-in-principle in favour! 😠

Adult Little Gull roosted with Common Gulls yesterday evening, was not present today. Tom Parkinson. 

747 Manx, 1 Balearic, 4 Fulmar, 8 Kitti, 1 BTD, 2 RTD, 8 Sandwich, 2 Common & 19 Arctic Tern, 1 DM Arctic Skua, 18 Guillemot, 1 Razorbill, 2 Black Guilemot, 1 Whimbrel, 11 Curlew, plus a pod of Common Dolphin between 5:30-9:30. Tom Parkinson. 

Dipper spotted around 12.30 on the Fleet River by Mill on the Fleet in Gatehouse of Fleet. Nicki Sibbald. 

Signs of movement with a lot of Chiffchaff calling around the Crook, as well as a family party of 3 Whinchat and a Merlin. Also 2 cream capped Marsh Harrier. Ivan Lang

Green Sandpiper this morning, also Common Sandpiper and Sedge Warbler. Bill Jamieson. 

Only a couple of weeks late. Best birds, a good dozen Whimbrel & the early returning Grey Plover from last month still. 5 Goosander. Ringed Plover I believe have bred successfully between Hogus & Borron Pts. Carse Bay through the heat haze near HT, 2 Greenshank at least, dozen+ Dunlin & Ringed Plover, several Little Egret. PJ

Yesterday 20th. Juvenile Little Stint on Sunday pm right in front of small parking area. Greenshank 2, Common Sand 20+, Avocet 11 incl a bird with apparent yellow ring on each leg. Steven Cooper. 

A Whimbrel at Piltanton Burn estuary this morning. Nigel Willits. 

One flew south past the Mull of Galloway mid-afternoon. 

Nightjar flushed from Shell Road down towards the crook this morning at 09.00. Ivan Lang.

10/7. 0600-0700. Barnacle Goose 9, Greenshank ad & 2 juv, Common Sandpiper 22 (60+ on 6/7). Ian Irving.

2 Great Egrets and a (s?c)harming water rail. Mick Whitehouse & Nancy Harrison. 

I pretty much agree with 6 of the 7 comments (as at 6/7/25) left on this topic.  https://www.birdguides.com/news/conservationists-to-revive-tern-colony-in-southern-scotland/  

One reported high tide at Skyreburn, Gatehouse of Fleet. 

A bit off topic.... Had a few hours with the lonesome friendly piper last Saturday. Lighting could have been better. Quite tolerant of humans but def didn't like dogs. Lots of humans with dogs. Bird frequented, or stuck to, to keep out of the way, the harbour "spit". Late afternoon, when tide receding, it fed for a while on the harbour mud along same spit. It runs like a Sanderling but usually quite slow moving. Also "crept" a little at times, reminiscent of a (non-springy) Jack Snipe. Where will it go in a few weeks time? Europe? I wonder. PJ

Folly Pond - 1 young LRP. Mick Whitehouse & Nancy Harrison.

Last ditch survey again but better late... Bit of a surprise to find half dozen Whimbrel on the foreshore. Ditto 4 Bar-tailed Godwit. Unusual was a single Common Sandpiper but given the numbers in Carse Gut today, not so. An Osprey was eating a fish on offshore mudflats. 3 Ringed Plover, 1 Redshank. 3 flying-in juv Greenshank was pleasing as I got good view of them just off Hogus Pt. Single Little Egret & Mallard & another surprise, a black armpitted Grey Plover dropped in. Hopping on one leg suggested possible injury. So, a bit of a hint of winter in the mix on the last day of June! PJ

Rising tide early pm. No less than 11 Common Sandpiper on the channel edge, a juv Greenshank surprised me & a delightful 3 recently hatched Ringed Plover chicks confirming breeding success in the shingle spit zone of the beach no doubt. Great 😊👍 PJ

Trip with RP, CK & CB. Langholm Moor - 3m Hen Harrier, 1 Cuckoo & a few Whinchat. Mennock Pass - fem Ring Ouzel, several Wheatear, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail on the burn. PJ

Whinchats sadly didn't want to be photographed! A chilly afternoon yesterday too. PJ

5 pfg on Kirkconnell Merse from Glencaple. Quail in possible hay or, silage field 4pm. Road from Glencaple to Bankend here;  https://maps.app.goo.gl/J2jAQC5QZTvuahQb6  

12/6. 0530-0620; Pink-footed Goose 2, Great Egret 1, Avocet 25, Bar-tailed Godwit 11. Ian Irving. 

10:00-10:30pm+. 2 churring birds of 1 min+, with 1 in flight seen within yards & circling the nearby area along Kirkgunzeon road south of the Glider Club turning. Same place as last year. Nothing heard or seen in former Auchenhay Hill location off B793 Dalbeattie road. PJ

We can't escape the need to be heard & our real concerns counted! (if we have any!!).  Friends of the EARTH, inform us that; "UK companies are trashing the environment and wrecking the lives of people overseas through their global supply chains - and UK law lets them do it. We need a new law to make them accountable. Sign this Friends of the Earth petition if you agree".  https://action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/make-companies-accountable-harm-for-destroying-forests-and-lives?utm_source=whatsapp_share&utm_campaign=%5B2159%5D&utm_medium=share  

Woodcockair. Redstart pair remain at woodland edge with young (at least 2 noted). Second pair down beside the river with at least 2 young (looking 2/3 days older than the pair at the south end of the wood), constant tail twitching. Adults can be very bold with a tic ticking alarm call. So far 2 out of 4 estimated pairs in here have fledged young, looking great. Bill Jamieson. 

After three failed years the Carlingwark (roadside) Great Crested Grebes have at last hatched at least one of four eggs. Seen feeding happily. Barbara Williams. 

Hoddam, Woodcockair. Pair of Redstart with newly fledged young this morning at woodland edge. Ssw one young on the bracken but female disappearing with food and coming out with nothing. Watching for 10 minutes at a safe distance. Bill Jamieson. 

One flew west off the Mull of Galloway this afternoon. 

c1300 Common Scoter distantly out from Carsethorn, in line roughly with Chapelcross Power Station, so probably off WWT/NNR. Gavin Chambers.