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Glossy Ibis

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

RSPB Crook of Baldoon

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

Skua

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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.

Browhouses

Great Skua sat on the beach right now, I believe Scottish side. Little Egret with colour rings red H right, yellow left 4. Plus 5 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, a 1st summer Med Gull I reckon & 23 Avocet on the English side atm, one with an unreadable yellow flag on the right & red over yellow left.

Browhouses

Up to 24 Avocet straddling the English border today.

Glossy Ibis

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

WWT Caerlaverock - Opening

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

Ruddy Shelduck

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.

Caerlaverock Estate

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

Ruddy Shelduck

On the Nith estuary off Castle Corner this afternoon.

Glossy Ibis

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

Browhouses

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

Geese!

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

Browhouses

13 Avocet at lunchtime+. Colin Kinnear.

Wood Sandpiper

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

Sandpiper Days

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.

Summer Breeze

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.

Wiggy - May report

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

WWT Caerlaverock

2 Glossy Ibis on Folly Pond yesterday. Note that the reserve reopens to the public on 2nd July AFAIK.

Storm-ing Petrel

A bird from the ferry from Cairnryan to Belfast. Scottish waters... Only 1?

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