Thanks to satellite tracking, you can follow the local Osprey chicks which fledged near to WWT Caerlaverock, as they migrate south! WWT Caerlaverock tell us that the Caerlaverock area is home to breeding ospreys that have arrived every [.....]
Night Watch National Nature Reserve – Historic Environment Scotland event 20-OCT-2017 A series of events are taking place on and around the reserve throughout Caerlaverock NNR's 60th Anniversary year. Come and join us at Caerlaverock Castle to enjoy [.....]
Awww - just look at these wonderful fluffy barn owl chicks! Many thanks to local, licensed bird ringer, Duncan Irving for sending us this fabulous photo of Barn Owl chicks taken by his colleague Steven Jackson. They were [.....]
Thanks to Sue Greig who got in touch to say that she spotted a small flock of barnacles on the Glencaple side of the river one morning this week. "One was ringed so I sent information to Larry Griffin [.....]
The P4-7 class have entered a national competition where we have to try and catch footage of animals on a wildlife camera. We thought about where would be best to set up the camera and decided to send [.....]
Kathryn Luna Vogel may not have seen the elusive kingfisher to capture on camera this morning, but she did get up before sunrise to take these wonderful photos of some of the birds at Glencaple Farm (and the [.....]
Chris Jackson and Alison Robertson have spent about half an hour watching a kingfisher on the River Nith banking near to the Quay End in Glencaple, opposite their house at 9.30 this morning! It was catching fish, then [.....]
As if to beautifully illustrate the work of the North Solway Ringing Group (as mentioned in our barn owl article), Duncan Irving, of the NSRG has sent us his 2016 bird ringing report from Kenneth Bank, Caerlaverock! I'm sure there [.....]
We popped in to see Steven Jackson in Shearington last night. He is a member of the the North Solway Ringing Group (NSRG), and he is looking for everyone who has recent sightings of barn owls in and [.....]
Main photo credit Richard Taylor Jones Autumn is now with us and so are the geese! The first pink-footed geese arrived mid-September with many continuing their flight south to Lancashire. The first 29 barnacle geese arrived on the [.....]
Ellie Oakley, student with NNR Caerlaverock has written a new blog post all about the Wetland Bird Survey [WeBS] counts she has taken part in recently. She has asked us to share it with you. Find out all [.....]
The 'Dumfries and Galloway What's Going On' news pages are highlighting the plight of the incredible migrant bird visitor, the swift, asking for information on local nesting sites and swift screaming parties in Dumfries and Galloway to be [.....]
In search of a wee bowl of soup today, we felt like lucky winners at WWT Caerlaverock as we watched the live camera feed - the two osprey chicks were being fed their lunch too! Tastey trout nonetheless! [.....]
Mute swan cygnet photo by Alex Hillier Chiffchaff by Ray Cottrell Summer is here at last and the reserve is alive with birdsong, chiffchaffs, blackcaps, willow, sedge, reed and garden warblers are all back from a [.....]
For those who don’t know, Keith Brown is a talented local artist living in Glencaple. A civil engineer by trade, Keith started painting around 30 years ago. He is strongly influenced by the beauty, light and natural abundance [.....]
Police Scotland, along with RSPB Scotland, are urging members of the public to report any suspicious activity around wildlife reserves or in open countryside, to help prevent the theft of, in particular, wild bird eggs at this time [.....]
The Dumfries and Galloway Environmental Resources Centre (DGERC) is the local environmental records centre for our region and provides access to high quality wildlife and habitat information from national and local sources. The Centre collects, collates, manages and [.....]
There have been several sightings of the elusive bittern at WWT Caerlaverock this autumn. Only one previous record of a bittern has been recorded. The first of these sightings was on the 22nd September 2015, from the Avenue Tower at [.....]
Check the WWT Website for up to date info! Guide in the Hide Daily Our friendly, knowledgeable guides will be out and about in the hides to point out the best wildlife View full details Wild Swan Feeds Daily [.....]
Nothing evokes the sound of winter at Caerlaverock quite like the sound of thousands of Barnacle Geese rising and flying overhead! These beautiful, small geese have migrated all the way from Svalbard in the Artic Circle to over [.....]
