Busy with hirundine this morning. Also a male & ♀️/1st-winter Blackcap munching my conference pears on the bush. Both looking dapper, the brown cap looking very adult rather than a juvvy. PJ

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May, June, July and August reports have arrived like the proverbial bus 🚌. See A Wander Round the Wig. https://awanderroundthewig.blogspot.com/2025/09/bird-report-for-may-june-and-july-2025.html?m=1

Offshore. 13 Red-throated Diver & a Guillemot drifting in with the tide. Around 3.30pm an ad winter Med Gull found with Black-headeds in the harvested potato field, though all field-hopping until an overflying microlight drove half away. 

Apart from Robins being everywhere in numbers today, Carse Bay merse offered 3 distant Greenshank dropping into a creek & a ringtail HH heading Carsethorn way btwn Airds Point & Drummains Reedbed. However, a nuisance mobbing crow turned it around & it headed back Airds Point way 🙄. On the village foreshore with the incoming tide, 3 Black-tailed & 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, a Knot & 2 Whimbrel. 

26th. Curlew Sandpiper reported mid-pm on the estuary.

7 Crossbill this morning, also a Sparrowhawk in what was a pretty quiet 2 hour walk bird wise. Bill Jamieson.

3 adult Mediterranean Gull in field by Powillimount car park around 3pm. Gavin. 

Cetti's Warbler heard from Meida Hide this morning at RSPB Mersehead. Gavin.

1 HEARD overhead amongst a group of Jackdaws, east of the A747 & Milton, The Machars. Findlay Ramsay.

Group of 9 taken, at Loch Ryan, Soleburn stream 18.45, 26th September 2025. I believe all Little Egret, (yellow feet in flight), but some appeared slightly smaller. Terry Rowe. (Thanks to Terry for the report 😊)

"Female/juv Marsh Harrier being mobbed by crow". Connor Fraser.

Levenhall Links Bird Reserve aka Musselburgh Lagoons. Had a few hours enjoying the Marsh Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, 10+ Ruff, Bar-tailed and Black-tailed Godwits & Surf Scoter on the sea. Great weather & light. PJ 

c30 Barnacle Geese south over Langholm, 19:45. Steven Cooper.

13th golf tee roost. c150-200 Golden Plover, c200ea Dunlin & Ringed Plover, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Snipe, 4 Rock Pipit & 1♀ Wheatear avoiding the camera. PJ 

23rd am. 2 Sandwich Tern, 1 comic, 16 Guillemot, 2 Razorbill, Wheatear, 3 Raven, 30 Gannet, 4+ harbour porpoises in flat calm conditions. Mull of Galloway pm. 8 Stonechat, 1 White Wagtail. Ian Bainbridge.

2 Ringtail HH today.

Loch Ryan east of Stranraer: 20 Scaup, 12 Brents, 250 Wigeon, 12 Knot, 80 Mute Swan. Soleburn; 15 Brents, 65 Merganser, 2 Greenshank. Ian Bainbridge. Red-necked Grebe, two today; also 10 Greater Scaup and 33 Slavonian Grebe. Soleburn; 3 Slav Grebe.

Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) (1) - Reported Sep 21, 2025 10:15 by Connor Fraser - River Esk at Browhouses. Also 2 Little Stint & 12 Curlew Sandpiper reported. Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) (1) - Reported Sep 19, 2025 18:34 by Simon Burton - St Michael's Cemetery, Dumfries. 

WWT Folly Pond water well up & too high for waders. Saltcot Merse Observatory hide; ringtail HH quartering far merse edge. 1 juv/♀️ Merlin on near field fence post & possibly 2 more at distance towards Brow Well interacting briefly. 2 GWE, 1 east & 1 west of hide. Also a strange looking Barnacle Goose. [ I'd suggest a Hybrid. Note the Barnacle Goose with white neck collar indicating at least some, if not all, have likely come from the feral Loch Leven flock. Gavin]. Quite a  number of Barnies with neck band ID, which are the feral birds I think?🤔, as Gavin has now confirmed. From the closed NNR Holland Hide, 5 buffy Wheatear in field. Best pics of the strange Barnie attached. PJ. 

Despite the wind being in a promising direction there seemed to be little movement offshore. Apart from the usual suspects the highlight was a Sabine Gull north, 3 Common Scoter and a Great Northern Diver. Ivan Lang. 

Brambling flying over Bladnoch, Green Sandpiper on the river and RTD out in the bay. Ivan Lang.

100 Pinkfeet south over Langholm just now (09:00). Well, they’re the first I’ve seen this autumn if not breaking any records. Steven Cooper. First Pinks (13) heading south over RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Ended the day with over 200. Also 33 Blackwit and a Barn Owl. Ivan Lang. 50 Pink-footed Goose flew south over Glencaple 16.00 on 18th September and 150 more, higher up, today at 11.00. Duncan Irving. On a wet morning/early afternoon at WWT Caerlaverock highlights were Great White Egret, Merlin, Peregrine and Kestrel. Robbie Purdie. I saw a solitary pfg yesterday 18th at Browhouses! PJ

c1400-1630. Found "only" 12 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Ruff (1 larger), 7 Golden Plover, at least 12 Snipe, a leg tagged Little Egret (H red right, 4 yellow left), c100 Dunlin. PJ

50+ Curlew Sandpiper still today. 

Osprey, Peregrine (adult) & Otter from Saltcot Observatory Tower hide, Caerlaverock WWT this afternoon. Paul Massey. 

An unspecified bird flew over the visitors centre at WWT Caerlaverock. Reported by Simon West.

Another few hours today. Carse Bay; 2 Greenshank a way up the Gut, 1 Black-tailed & 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 buffy Wheatear along shore near the far bench. Carsethorn; 2 buffy (juv & ♀️ I think) Wheatear hanging around the shingle spit. One with a metal ring. At least 2 Whimbrel, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Greenshank on foreshore. Bh Gull with busted wing & having a metal leg ring. Painted Lady on village ivy. A Grey Wagtail on Kirkbean Burn. 

Sea-watching at Southerness Point (18.30-19.45 hours): Pomarine Skua (dark-phase west @ 19.14 hours), Arctic Skua (3 west), Arctic Tern (2), Sandwich Tern (16), Red-throated Diver (1), Guillemot (1), Common Scoter (3). Plus Common Sandpiper on beach. Paul Massey. 

Spoonbill adult in flight over merse to south of Hollands Farm hide, before dropping into channel on merse. Female Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Greenshank & Wheatear here also. Paul Massey.