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Hello everyone, Do you love the scream of swifts on warm summer evenings? I find there is nothing that evokes relaxed summer evenings with a cold G&T better, than the sound of their calls over the town. But swifts are in trouble. Fewer are returning to their nest sites and these secret places...

2 Ospreys were seen yesterday near the nest. One sitting on the nest, the other on the ground nearby. There was no interaction seen between them, so obviously not a pair yet..... Could it be the young male from last year? Or perhaps a bird from another pair in the area? Pop down to Wigtown Bay Visitor...

Hello everyone, Spring has finally arrived. The first swallows are swooping through Wigtown and the male osprey EP, is spending every morning at the nest, searching the skies and tidying, hoping a female osprey will take an interest. This weekend is the Wigtown Book Weekend - visit this website...

Great news everyone! Today the town bells in Wigtown rang to welcome back our male (leg ring white EP) to the nest. We'd had reports of an osprey since Sunday, but with the camera not working we could not see what was going on. Camera is fully functional again as of 4pm yesterday and straight away...

After 3 days of no electricity, I was MIGHTY glad when the lights popped back on last night. We even had our first barbeque of the year!! Wasn't the warmest but at least the sun was shining. The wind is still bitterly cold here but that hasn't detered some hardy ospreys returning to the UK. Reports...

It's with baited breath that I go into the Visitor Centre these days. Any day now an osprey could appear on the nest. Already there has been an osprey sighted at Annan. Could this be the Caerlaverock birds returning? We will just have to wait and see. 3 other opsreys have been seen further south...

It is with great sadness that I write to say that Mr Bill Campbell, one of our first volunteers in the Wigtown Bay Visitor Centre, sadly lost his battle with cancer on the 3rd January, at Dumfries hospital, with his family at his side. Bill started as a visitor interpretation volunteer in July 2011...

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...

T The 12th of the 12th 2012 was an auspicious day not only for the couples getting married at the other end of the county at Gretna Green. We at Wigtown had our Volunteer Christmas party for the Crook of Baldoon reserve, Wigtown Bay Visitor Centre and the other Galloway Reserves. We had a great...

Has there been any word at all about the Wigtown ospreys?

Talk about skeletons in the cupboard wish I had a broom could get rid of all these old bones and feathers.

28th July, This little fellow was sat most of the day on the lip of the box and overnight disappeared. It was the only chick to fledge form the second brood for this box. I think its partner may of been predated by the female woodpecker a couple of days earlier. Both clutches of eggs in this box had...

The Wigtown Bay Visitor Centre Visitors Book has finally been created. It is really important for our project to show our funders how many local people and visitors support our project, so next time you come and visit us in the Wigtown County Buildings, please remember to sign our book. Many thanks,...

Photo taken by Andy Farrington from Wigtown County Buildings Visitor Centre Osprey Camera, Saturday 16th July 2011.

Photo taken by Andy Farrington from Wigtown County Buildings Visitor Centre Osprey Camera, Saturday 16th July 2011.

Yestersday, Wednesday 13th July local children and parents helped me build a new osprey nest for Wigtown. As part iof the Wigtown and District Community Festival, lots of young opsrey chick helpers built a full size nest in the Wigtown Gardens. This nest will remain there for a few weeks to show just...

Photo: Ian Brown, 13th July 2011

General view across the salt marsh with the pink haze of Thrift, which is present on the lower to medium salt marsh or merse, with the Galloway Hills behind.