Just noticed 11 Whooper Swans out the window at Carsethorn sat on the shoreline as tide goes out. Gavin. 

6 Whooper, 4 Gadwall, c20 Little Grebe, c50 Mallard, c30 Wigeon, c30 LBB Gull. 2 Red Kite over. Viewed from Park Burn access track.

Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) (25) - Reported Oct 25, 2025 11:46 by Roger Coutu - Soleburn.  Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) - Reported Oct 25, 2025 10:01 by Roger Coutu - Loch Ryan, Innermessan Shore.  European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) (75) - Reported Oct 24, 2025 10:20 by Connor Fraser - River Esk at Browhouses.  Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle) (2) - Reported Oct 25, 2025 11:59 by Roger Coutu - Loch Ryan, Between Stranraer and Kirkcolm.  Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) - Reported Oct 24, 2025 12:29 by Mathieu Soetens - Cairnryan to Belfast Ferry (Scottish waters only).  Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus) (1) - Reported Oct 25, 2025 11:59 by Roger Coutu - Loch Ryan, Between Stranraer and Kirkcolm.  Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata) (1) - Reported Oct 24, 2025 12:29 by Mathieu Soetens - Cairnryan to Belfast Ferry (Scottish waters only).  Redwing (Turdus iliacus) (3) - Reported Oct 25, 2025 08:40 by Simon Burton - Maidenbower Path,...

The only notable records from a quick visit this morning were about 200 Fieldfare, 30 to 40 Whoopers and a Tufted Duck. Ivan Lang. 

Heard again from the Meida Hide at RSPB Mersehead.

Usuals but good numbers today inc 2 Whimbrel still, 7 Snipe, around a dozen Black-tailed & single Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Grey Plover. An ad Med Gull showed up late, only to be scattered to the wind by a bullish Herring Gull. Also a Chiffchaff in the sycamore adjacent path to beach from car park.

Great White Egret & unspecified Hen Harrier seen. Reported by Kim Last.

Eclipse drake seen again at Skyreburn 3pm. Along the burn itself by the look of it.

Another HT visit. A very brown Brent Goose at the point, unless anyone has a view... 13th golf tee roost was broadly the same as yesterday plus a few Knot & no Golden Plover. PJ

Drake Goosander returned from migratory moult on the Nith alongside Dock Park. Robbie Purdie.

Great Northern Diver, 6 Red-throated Diver, a few auks, Eider, Ringed Plovers, Sanderling. Passing gannets, juv Sandwich Tern, juv Arctic Tern, Merlin. Kev & Sue Richardson.

13th golf tee roost, ebbing tide. c1000 Dunlin but no white rumps spotted. c20-30 Sanderling, 6 Golden Plover, 21 Grey Plover, 2 Little Egret. Along the shore back to the lighthouse, a colour-ringed Curlew plus a surprise Kingfisher briefly, which caught a nice fish, & 3 Rock Pipit. I think the birds will be glad when half-term is over.

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20/10/25. Water Rail this morning. Kev & Sue Richardson.

One offshore from the Isle of Whithorn late pm.

Coming to your garden soon... 2 at Makbrar Meuse, Dumfries. Reported by Simon Burton.

18th. 3 RTD & 1 Black-throated Diver offshore reported by Stuart Housden.

West of Southerness Lighthouse this morning - 4 Twite feeding along shoreline, Kingfisher feeding in rock pools, usual waders on a small tide. 9 Swallow over fields near West Preston. Mersehead - 2 Cettis Warbler singing at Meida Hide, immature male Marsh Harrier over reedbed, Goldcrest and Chiffchaff scattered across site. Gavin. 

Fieldfare (42) - Reported Oct 17, 2025 15:23 by Stuart Housden - Langholm Moor.

17th. 1 Jack Snipe on the rocks at Southerness Point high tide plus 4 Grey Plover. Also 2 Wheatear on shoreline. Mick Whitehouse & Nancy Harrison.

From Stairhaven. Great Northern Diver (Ed. imm), 4 Red-throated Diver, 3 Swallow, pair of Grey Wagtail. Kev & Sue Richardson.

The usual Hooded Crow in Dumfries on rooftops along A780 just east of Brownrigg Loaning at 3pm. Gavin. 

Reported seen 1240 at Rascarrel Bay before flying inland. Apparently seen yesterday around 4.30pm & a juvenile, along the strandline. 

Barn Owl (1) - Reported Oct 17, 2025 05:18 by Gyorgy Szimuly - A74(M), Lockerbie. (presumably from the M74!?).

Wed 14th ; "31 west of B7084", Sandhead.

9 in Makbrar Meuse, Dumfries. Reported by Simon Burton.

Barry O'Dowd reports ; Drake Ring-necked Duck yesterday (14th) late pm on a small farm Loch at Borgue. Not there today. Barry O'Dowd.

A Redwing & a Kingfisher seen from there by David Leedham.

This evening. 7 Red-throated Diver, 5 Red-breasted Merganser, Mallards and Wigeon. 8+ Greenshank, 20+ Turnstone, 20+ Ringed Plover, Curlews, Redshank, a few Knot and amongst the hundreds of Oystercatcher, this pied (Ed. leucistic) individual. Kev & Sue Richardson.

Siberian Chiffchaff this morning still, at Dalavan Bay south of Cardoness.