BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
Heeonbies formerly in existence in Dumfriesshire, 
now abandoned. 
Parish. 
Situation and Approximate Number of Nests. 
Source of Information. 
APPLEGARTH .. • 
: ^ 1 2 
?J neste^^Sce 19I2. and previous to that only an ^ 
odd nest. 
loologist, 1872, p. 3267. 
Chapman, 10.ii.l909. 
Closeburn • . ] 
Rpardie's Howe, on Shawsmuir. They built on . 
fw« nirt 4fivpr-Firs but left when these were cut 
down in 1890 or 1892. 
C. M. Brown, 
12.viii.l908. 
DALTON . . 
D^ont. I remember seeing their nests as a 
boy in 1865. — - 
R. Service, l.iv.l908. 
DURISDEER 
Drumlanrig. At the summit of some very tall 
SU^?-Firs At one time there were six nests 
now none I have known this heronry for 
^Sit^^rs^b^it^^ 
J. Bell, l.iv.l908. 
W. Laidlaw, l.iv.l908. 
EWES 
Dean Bank. Formerly two nests on Fir and 
Larch, now deserted. 
Arkleton. At one time twenty nests on Firs and 
Larches, now deserted. 
W. Laidlaw, l.iv.l908. 
Glencairn 
■Hal what Water 1872. about twelve nests on Firs. 
FnSfD^Martm states: " They formerly nested 
at the head of Glencairn, but the trees havmg 
been cut down they^o^onolonger,^ 
Zoologist, 1872, p. 3267 
Trans. D. and G. is at. 
Eist. Soc, December 
13th, 1901. 
Barbuie. There was a single nest a young 
plantation herejomey^rs^fo^butn^^ 
J. Corrie, 16.viii.l908. 
Button and 
CORRIE. 
At Shaw of Dryfe it is recorded in 1794 that 
" there is a heronry where some hundreds are 
bred yeariy and have been so, past aU account 
Sthfpffie. .The — th?XlrTof man 
They brinj fish for their young, a pound weight 
froS the lakes at Lochmaben, eight or ten miles 
The wood where the Herons nested came to^ be 
s^t iKtit '^^^.^^^iX't.^^^^ 
were ousted by Rooks. _. ^ 
Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. 
XIII., p. 580. 
Col. W. Rogerson, 
l,\}.LX.i.*/\Jv» 
KmKMAHOE 
]^;i^^^'^;j7^^^^dUi876. A solitary pau: have bred for 
some years. fhprp were four nests one 
None since 1896, when there were luui uco 
f^PotH T^ii-, tliree in Beech trees. 
Dumfries Courier, 
12.ix.l876. 
W. Coupland, 9.U.1909. 
KIRKPATRICK- 
JUXTA. 
were cut down. 
J. Bartholomew, 
29.vi.1908. 
MORTON .. 
' Nithbank. Seven or eight nests in 1883 , trees 
blown down in 1884. ■ 
Tom Crosbie, 
1 .iii.l908^________ 
Dabton. A tall tree here was regularly resorted to 
but^^nestbeingrob^^ 
R. Armstrong, 
5.ix.l908. 
PENPONT.. 
T^^i^^ri^. One or two pairs that used to come 
• he^Kst^^ 
" C. Hyslop, 8.U.1909. 
St. Mungo 
^^^^^j^^jj^rr^^J,^^^^— given in 
Mr. C^Sanderson, who has b^^n gamekeeper th^^^ 
since 1868, says he never knew of this tieronr> 
Zoologist, 1872, 
B C.Sanderson, ll.ii.l909 
Sanquhar 
~ EUock. The Herons nested here untU about 1888 
• ^yliPTi ^'•'^fis were blown down. 
W. J. Laidlaw, 
20.V.1908. 
