11am. 2 still on Folly Pond WWT Caerlaverock. Also ♂️Whinchat hawking from pond fringe vegetation. Later, a juv Ruff appeared. Also a Snipe & fem type Marsh Harrier. Same or another fem type Marsh Harrier seen from Hollands Hide, Caerlaverock NNR. No Cetti's heard, no Bittern encountered. 

2 Glossy Ibis still at WWT Caerlaverock Folly Pond (probably). 2 Great Skua & 2 Storm Petrel from Cairnryan, Loch Ryan. Bittern at Caerlaverock NNR rather unexpected & potentially very sensitive.

2 still at WWT Caerlaverock, Folly Pond. Reserve not open to the public until Thursday through to Saturday.

Quail singing from the Airfield at the Crook, between the Crook and the buildings at Penkiln. Ivan Lang. 

Still offshore at Browhouses. Moving around occasionally. 1230+ Currently sat opposite cottages but on English side sandbank. Attended by GBBG. Seems to be hanging around to steal what seafood the GBBG's find to eat. Avocet still & all birds get flighty if the GS takes flight. Resting possibly on the Scottish side opposite the cottages. However, it's Browhouses foreshore, so Scotland! Image low tidish, 1430-1500.

Great Skua sat on the beach right now, flying over both sides of the border. Little Egret with colour rings; red with white H right, yellow with black 4 left. Plus 5 Greenshank, 3+ Common Sandpiper, a 1st summer (2cy) Med Gull & 23 Avocet again straddling both sides of the border, one with an unreadable yellow flag on the right & red over yellow left.

Up to 24 Avocet straddling the English border today.

2 still at WWT Caerlaverock Folly Pond. Lssr Whitethroat at Castle Point, Rockcliffe. Up to 5ad Osprey at Threave NTS.

Reminder that the reserve only opens to the public on Thursday, Friday & Saturday, until further notice.

Update 1330; Ruddy Shelduck with Shelduck flock on mudflats in front of storage tanks (Airds Point) opposite Glencaple, near Castle Corner. Flew off with a group to a more distant seaward sandbank. Robbie Purdie.

2 Glossy Ibis still at WWT Caerlaverock, Folly Pond. Ruddy Shelduck still off Castle Corner, Caerlaverock NNR.

On the Nith estuary off Castle Corner this afternoon.

Glossy Ibis x2 reappeared at WWT Caerlaverock Folly Pond. Showing well this afternoon. Robbie Purdie.

This morning, 21 Avocets in 2 groups LHS sandbanks. Robbie Purdie.

Btwn Kingholm Quay & Keltonbank, 3 Barnacle & 1 PFG seen. Injured birds maybe, or are the Barnies from Linlithgow?

13 Avocet at lunchtime+. Colin Kinnear.

On the lagoon north of car park at RSPB Crook of Baldoon.

4/5 Comm Sand on the Nith at Carnsalloch. 5+ along Nith from Glencaple. Also 5 Redshank in the creek opposite the quay. Egrets, Shelduck, Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Med Pipits, Skylark, Hirundine, bubbling Curlew.

Swift & Skylark at Screel Hill. Hirundine cheer you up every day. Warblers Willow, Garden, Wood & Grasshopper, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat & Lesser. All the choir of summer's harmony. Spotted, Pied Flycatcher & Redstart the jewels of the woods punctuate the byways. All dancing on the Summer's Breeze. Still with us & there to be found.

Keen followers of the historical revelations of the blog, will be eager to read the latest May installment of AWRTW, published yesterday, 27th June.  See;   https://awanderroundthewig.blogspot.com/2026/06/wildlife-to-rescue-bird-report-for-may.html