12th May

The first sedge warbler was singing at Ancum Loch, 5 house martin and a sand martin were seen and an osprey flew though heading north. A willow warbler was along the west dyke, 2 chiffchaff at the north end and another at Holland, with 3 collared dove there also. 2 jackdaw and a carrion crow were in the south and 2 curlew sandpiper were on Trolla Vatn Loch, but bird of the day came late in the evening with an adult summer mediterranean gull in a ploughed field at Cott with 17 lesser black-backed gulls and 88 herring gulls.