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Guidelines for Reporting Rarities and Submission of Annual Records
Detailed records of nationally or locally rare species (guidance on these is
here) should be sent to the County Recorder Eddie Hunter (
goweros23@gmail.com) as soon as possible after the sighting. An appropriate description should be provided of the species, your previous experience of it (and similar species), the circumstances and weather conditions in which the sighting occurred and any other pertinent information (such as photos). He will then circulate to the local or national records committee as relevant.
Day to day observations, including of nest sites, flocks of birds and species of local interest, should be collated in the Annual Record Form and sent to Eddie as an email attachment following each calendar year. Receiving these by the end of January is ideal as an early start can then be made on compiling the annual report.
PLEASE NOTE
Please could we ask that detailed locational information that may lead to the disturbance of the nest sites of species listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981) is omitted from any posts. This may otherwise lead to an offence being committed.
Schedule 1 species that regularly breed in the recording area are Dartford warbler, chough, honey buzzard, crossbill, goshawk, kingfisher, hobby, red kite, barn owl, peregrine, little ringed plover and Cetti’s warbler.
Counts form the upper section of the Burry this morning included 2 Gadwall, 241 Oystercatcher, 2 whimbrel, 749 Black-tailed Godwit, 74 Knot, 1 Ruff and 10 Dunlin. Yestetrday and the day before, between Landimore and Penclawdd totals included 1 Dark-bellied Brent, 106 Shelduck, 29 Teal, 1 Wigeon, 78 Eider (off Whiteford), 2 Red-breasted Merganser, 1 Slavonian Grebe, 2 Great White Egret, 253 Oystercatcher, 57 Whimbrel, 18 Curlew, 431 Black-headed Gull, 2 Mediterranean Gull, 6 Sandwich Terns, Peregrine 2 (one with a Black-headed Gull kill , which it managed to keep away from the Carrion Crows) and 2 White Wagtail.
Pant Y Sais, Cuckoo
Pant y Sais today: cuckoo, grasshopper warbler, numerous reed and sedge warblers.
A single Spoonbill flew overhead my garden on Pennard Cliffs mid afternoon yesterday, heading out to sea in a south easterly direction. The first sighting of the species from the site.