Mandarin Duck in Town Wood, Dalbeattie, on the loch with Mallards. Bar-tailed Godwit & 2 presumably Lb Brents at Garlieston. 2 GWE from Glencaple pier.

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Garganey still & pair Gadwall. Ivan Lang.

3rd. 2 Greenshank HT+ at merse head. Tens of Pied Wagtail all over the flats. Maybe 300 Wigeon or more, 4 Little Egret, c40 Lapwing. Probable Grey Plover juv but its behaviour didn't recall GP for me. Nor Golden P. Noticeable dark cap/crown, dark primary tips, whitish forehead & supercilium behind the eye.

Bird still today between Garlieston & Rigg Bay. Still present between at 14.45. Ivan Lang. Directions; Walk down the path from Garlieston (pier) towards Rigg Bay. About 5min past the second gate, it was on the left out on the shoreline (at low tide). The group of Golden Plover it was with was pushed up on to the rocks about 2hrs after low tide. You can park either in Garlieston or there is limited parking at the pier/jetty. Ivan Lang.

Hen Harrier from the Avenue hide towards Brow Well at WWT & suggestion of Cetti's Warbler on the NNR, possibly around the Back 'o Woods hide.

GWE around Castle Corner, Caerlaverock NNR today. 

A bird reported between Garlieston & Rigg today. 

Rather too far offshore for comfortable viewing, an ad Surf Scoter amongst a flock of c50 common. Also 3 RTD. Unfortunately the raft moved west & I lost the surfer to the swell & couldn't refind. 

Osprey overhead heading south. Findlay Ramsay.

RSPB Crook of Baldoon, Green Sandpiper, 2 GWE & 2 Garganey confirmed by TR. Garlieston, Green Sandpiper & 22 Greenshank. The Nith at Kingholm Quay, GWE. At WWT Caerlaverock, GWE & Marsh Harrier.

2nd bird reappears at RSPB Crook of Baldoon today. Or is it 1 seen twice 🤔 Check out the lagoon north of car park. Also GWE turned up. 

30th. Garganey overhead plus 2 Ruff & Snipe on the lagoon north of car park.

Wryneck on path south of car park at 14.00. Unfortunately taken by Kestrel at 15.30. Ivan Lang.  Ed. Must've been exhausted ?? 

Still at RSPB Crook of Baldoon on the lagoon north of the car park.

Reported seen 8:20am 28th east of Moniaive, here (if it works!); https://maps.app.goo.gl/LkU4LH9dacLptfif8 NB; The location would appear to be PRIVATE GROUNDS!!

A bird reported flying east over Kippford this morning.

Mid-pm, spotted the WTE poking it's head above what must either be a lower ground level or water channel. Immediately opposite the bench at Browhouses. Later seen nearer to the M6 motorway , on the ground, taking flight & circling. Clearly hunting as attacking geese on the ground. It found a sick or injured bird, landed on it & began to pluck & eat it.

3 Gadwall & Snipe at Cally Park. 30 Comm Scoter off Castle Point, + 2 Chiffchaff in subsong with pair Peregrine hunting waders HT. 4 Greenshank, 3 Sanderling, 6 Sandwich Tern, Stonechat, 2 Rock Pipit, 2 Sparrowhawk & Peregrine at Stairhaven,

26th. 18:43-19:23 Estimated total of 5600 Pink-footed Geese and a skein of approx 1200 Barnacle Geese moved south out of Dumfries & Galloway to roost on Solway Firth between River Esk & River Eden. Guillemot, 1 initially close in to Dumfries side of River Esk, Little Egret 5 feeding then flew west, Gadwal 6, Wigeon 49, Pintail 1, Teal 34, Goosander 6, Oystercatcher 7, Lapwing 230, Curlew 5, Redshank 13.

Hobby south over merse at RSPB Crook of Baldoon. Ivan Lang. Hoopoe at Moniaive, west of the town.