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Just wanted to extend our best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy 2013. The next guided walk at the Crook of Baldoon is on Sunday 13th January - a perfect reason to walk off some of the Christmas excess and see what's around at the busiest time of year for wildfowl on the Crook. Peak numbners...

What a beautiful day! A crisp blue sky, long fingers of frost on the grass and large mounds of ice over the lower reaches of the merse and chunks floating out to sea on the tide. I would never have believed it was cold enough last night for ice in the sea at midday but there it was glistening in the...

The Glaucous Gull still present also a Jack Snipe and 30 Twite around midday sparrowhawk made a kill of a pigeon and then another sparrowhawk came in and attempted a food pass or was trying to nick the pigeon the bird with the kill hung on and few one way the other the other. still very quiet for...

Happy New year to you all. The first WeBs count of the New Year provided a couple of interesting birds for the Crook and the wider Wigtown Bay with a Glaucous Gull ans a Long Billed Dowitcher on the Crook and further up the Bay a Icelandic Gull. The WeBs for Crook of Baldoon Grey Heron...

I'm getting reports of 5 Whooper swans being seen at Wigtown Bay. I saw four Whoopers doing a flypast near NTS Threave Estate Castle Douglas this morning, and I was down at RSPB Mersehead yesterday where they had 1000 pinks arriving, 500 + Barnacle Geese and a male Goshawk, great to see! Please...