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 Bowness-on-Solway 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 Moniave, west of the town. 

Stairhaven, Wheatear, 6 Manx Shearwater, 150 Sandwich Tern, 8 RTD. Stranraer, 55 Lb Brents, RTD, 2 Black Guillemot, 2 Rock Pipit at Soleburn. 42 LbB, 1 Rock Pipit at Bishop Burn. Knot on the Loch Ryan mud-flats. Drummore, 5 Med Gull (3 adults & 2 1st-w), 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Greenshank, 1 Black Guillemot, 2 Rock Pipit. 2 RTD, 7 bartail, 6 Black Guillemot, 2 Sandwich Tern, 3 Rock Pipit at The Wig with a Ruff & Black-tailed Godwit. Chapel Rossan Bay, Peregrine, 2 Med Gull (1st-wt & adult) 2 Sandwich Tern, Greenshank, Sanderling, 3 Black Guillemot, Grey Wagtail. WWT Caerlaverock, 2 Marsh Harrier & 3 Sand Martin.

Garganey still at RSPB Crook of Baldoon & at Browhouses 7am, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper reported but no further update.

A bird on the roam but reports suggest it was on the English side from Browhouses. However, reported this morning to be on Scottish side 😁👍 

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

An early Jack Snipe flushed whilst topping. Also two Blackwit on lagoon this morning. Ivan Lang. 

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. One still on the lagoon north of car park.

The resident Black Swan present. Also a Dabchick, several Mistle Thrush on berries, couple of Stonechat, flocks of Med Pipit & Jay in the area.

Here I saw 50-100 likely Lesser Redpoll. Might have been the odd Siskin but didn't spot any. Flying & flocking around the larch trees there. https://maps.app.goo.gl/dgtdKtkkk6gRVKGq7?g_st=am

In this field, were 9 possibly 10 Buzzard & 1 Red Kite all on the ground & spread quite evenly! Never seen such a spectacle. They didn't move really, as if gathered for a worm hunt. Gradually each bird left the field, some to trees on the fringe, others further. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GW6t6ZGF6Tb1fNNs5?g_st=am

RSPB Crook of Baldoon. A bird seen rising from a ditch along Shell Rd & alighting in the reeds at the northern end of the lagoon. At Auchencairn from Shore Rd, a Greenshank. 

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

A couple of hours at Corsewall Point good movement of Gannet, Kittiwake and Auks. Highlights 2 Leach's and 1 European Storm Petrol and a Great Skua. Ivan Lang. 

Barnkirk Pt. Midway between the point and the steelworks. Also Bar Tailed Godwit (5) and 7/8 Greenshank this morning, tide well on the ebb. Bill Jamieson.

8 Leach's, 5 Storm Petrel & 882 Kittiwake offshore.

Browhouses, 8 Gadwall, 5 Snipe. Wigtown Harbour hide, a Kingfisher. Brighouse Bay, a couple of Rock Pipit. Off the Mull of Galloway, a Manx Shearwater & 2 Great Skua.

Ringtail HH quartering the scrub betwixt Saltcot & Avenue Tower hides. ♂️♀️ Marsh Harrier too.