Wild Wood at Tinker's Loaning is a great place to listen for the nightjar at dusk. Take the B793 off the A711. After about 2 miles Tinkers Loaning is on the right, just a few hundred metres from where the forest meets the road. Park your car at the gates to the forest. Between May and July, if you go a couple of hundred metres into the forest you should be able to hear the nightjar 'churring'.

Mersehead is an RSPB Reserve. It was once a farm.Today it forms an important part of the Solway European Marine site.Habitats on the Reserve include intertidal mudflats, sand dunes, saltmarsh, grassland, woodland and arable farmland. Key wildlife includes wintering Svalbard barnacle geese and pintail, as well as harbour porpoises, otters and natterjack toads. See the RSPB website for more.

The Galloway Kite Trail around beautiful Loch Ken promotes the population of kites, recently re-established in Kirkcudbrightshire.  Follow the trail and visit the feeding station.  For more information visit the website.