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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.
Swallows have arrived back at Langland Golf Club and where they have bred in many previous years in the green-keepers sheds. Also good numbers of greenfinches calling on the course and the cliff paths. Their numbers seem, reassuringly, to be on the up.
House martins back at copper quarter Swansea
Red kite seen over Sketty Park/Derwen Fawr this afternoon
Port Eynon this pm on a rising tide
RT Diver 3, two feeding close in and one up channel all in various stages of attaining bp
Guillemot 4, two feeding close in with divers and two down channel
Gannet 6 down channel
Sandwich Tern 3 down channel
Razorbill 2 down channel
Fulmar Petrel 1 close in then down channel
Oystercatcher 14 roosting on rocks
Penclawdd on the HT
Sandwich Tern 2 feeding close in shore
Common Sandpiper 1
Steady movement of Swallows and Sand Martins into the wind
Single cuckoo showing really well at Pant Y Sais…
Reed warbler at Crymlyn Bog today.
Singing blackcap. Along the Swansea canal at Trebanos yesterday.
Cuckoo reported at Pant Y Sais fen this afternoon
Forgot to mention, Morriston Park !
2 pairs of ring necked parakeets spotted today along with blackcaps, chiffchaffs, GSW, nuthatches etc.
Last week on 8th April: at dusk at Crymlyn Bog a flock of c70 Sand Martins were busily feeding overhead briefly before flying off again. Also 1-2 Snipe calling and Willow Warbler, Chiffchaffs, and a Blackcap joining the dusk chorus.
For the past three days since Friday 10th April there has been a Whitethroat in the trees outside my flat in Swansea Marina. Not singing but busily feeding. I am assuming it is a recent arrival that has stopped here to feed as we don’t normally get them in this location