Started with a walk down Southerness beach & found zip. Back road to Kirkgunzeon from Auchenskeoch, maybe 50+ mxd Redwing/Fieldfare flocks. Milton Loch, 2 GC Grebe, a few Tufted Duck, maybe 25 Goldeneye & c100 Coot. Auchenreoch Loch, 1 drake prob Scaup x Tufted hybrid amongst c30 Tufties. Loch Ken, 1 Kingfisher, c100 pfg. Carlingwark Loch, 30-40 Goldeneye & 3 juv/1st-winter Scaup, though looking small to me. However, staying together & part of group of Tufted Duck at the town end. PJ

3x 1st-winter Scaups, 74 Goldeneye & 35 Little Grebe. Threave NR: 94 Greenland White-fronted Geese, 131 Pink-footed Geese & 15 Whooper Swans in to roost on Blackpark Marsh at dusk. Paul Massey.

Barry O'Dowd reminds us that the reserve is now closed until the 19th November.

Chris Baines saw a Swallow hawking along the Southerness beach & a Water Rail, plus a Rose-ringed (Ring-necked) Parakeet around the Gillfoot Bay/Powillimount car park area.

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Male and ring-tailed Hen Harrier hunting over the field south of the car park. GWE briefly on merse at lunch then flew south. SEO also reported late afternoon. Ivan Lang.

A late Swallow west along the beach at Carsethorn, plus Whimbrel & Chiffchaff (collybita). Paul Massey.

A bird again in Carse Bay 3pm+, feeding with Redshank along rising tideline near Carse Pow outlet. Typically deeper wading with longer legs, sweeping head feeding pattern. PJ. 

Ambled beyond the original location of the Shorelark but nothing. Couple of Rock Pipit, several Stonechat on the golf course, 2 dead goose bodies & 2 live Barnies perhaps heading the same way on the flats. Carse Bay had a Greenshank, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Peregrine & hunting Merlin pre 3pm. PJ 

No sign of Shorelark at Southerness Point this morning, but flyover singles of Snow Bunting & Twite. Paul Massey.

2 Ruff in Lapwing flock, 4 GWE on the merse, juv Marsh Harrier & ad male & fem Hen Harrier, Merlin & Med Gull. Ross Ahmed.

2 GWE at Kirk Loch. 3 Kingfisher, 2 Gadwall, 4 Whoopers at Castle Loch. Ross Ahmed.

In the dry interlude c11am, found the bird just after the last cottage west of Southerness lighthouse on the beach. Had a good but gale-blown view of it. It was on its own. Returned to car for camera but soon the wind strengthened more & brought driving rain. No chance of a pic. It mosied along the beach west & then east but the weather defeated us both. The bird had linked up with a couple of skittish pipits & I lost it. Certainly needed the "waterproofs"! I wouldn't recommend trying to find it until after this spell of wet!! Glossy Ibis...?? Not with my luck. Ventured down the beach in the next dry interlude but no bird found. Diver spcs in Mersehead Bay but bins not that powerful!

2 Pochard at Milton Loch. 1 Kingfisher at Auchenreoch Loch. Bar-tailed Godwit, Knot, Snipe, Grey & 10 Golden Plover and a fly-by Kittiwake at high tide at WWT Caerlaverock. Ross Ahmed & Connor Fraser.

I dashed for Shorelark when I first heard of it. Got there at 16.30 in the gloom and did find it. The Ibis was reported while I was watching the lark and didn't get back before dark! Same observer as the Lesser Scaup finder. Gavin. 

This morning 2 Brambling and 2 Yellowhammer over at the Crook. This evening a 2-Owl dusk with a SEO and a Barn Owl. A Woodcock calling from the gloom. Ivan Lang. 

Shorelark on the beach between Southerness Point & RSPB Mersehead boundary (or near!). Plus Glossy Ibis?! 

Meida Hide, RSPB Mersehead - This afternoon, 2 Cetti's Warbler heard, male Hen Harrier, female type Marsh Harrier and c10k Starlings murmurating before roosting in reeds. Gavin. 

Connor Fraser reports ; Hen Harrier & 2 GWE from Avenue Tower hide plus a further GWE from Saltcot Merse Observatory hide.

WeBS at the Crook had a good selection of species with the highlight the first Woodcock of the season. Also a Great White Egret, Hen Harrier and good selection of waders. The Starlings putting on a good show with in excess of 10,000. Ivan Lang.