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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.
Llandimore this afternoon
Lapwing 951, Golden Plover 941 GW Egret 1
Llanrhidian Marsh late afternoon
Merlin 1 brown bird, GW Egret 2
Llanrhidian yesterday late pm -2 male Hen Harriers and 1 ringtail, distant Marsh harrier. A imm Goshawk flew in and was mobbed by both male Hens at once then the Gos made a kill in the marsh which it took low toward the village. Big numbers of Lapwing and Golden Plover still present
‘female type’ Blackcap has been in the garden(Clydach) over the last few days.Other ‘cold weather’ birds were Goldcrest,Bullfinch and Long Tailed-Tit. A Buzzard dropped in for a few minutes causing panic amongst the House Sparrows-but I think it needed respite from the mobbing of the local Herring Gulls.
Llanrhidian Marsh mid afternoon
Golden Plover 848, Lapwing 608, Hen Harrier 1 rt, GW Egret 1
Three Spoonbills at Dalton Point, Penclawdd today at 12.30.
There really were three…
Male blackcap in Langland garden all week. Also thrushes and finches turning up in the cold weather.
Llannant late afternoon
Golden Plover 150, Lapwing 175 flushed up by a Red Kite