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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.
Loughor Foreshore: Some signs of return passage on this evenings high tide, with counts of 1 Teal, 33 Oystercatcher, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Common Sandpiper, 3 Redshank, 1 Med Gull (3 earlier in week including a juvenile – photo) and 270 Swallows. There has also been a slow building up of the ‘regulars’ over the last week, with counts totals of 7 Shelduck, 140 Mallard, 81 Little Egret, 4 Great White Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 765 Black-headed Gull (including a c-r Polish bird – photo), 51 Herring Gull, 129… Read more »
Oxwich Marsh: garden warbler, 23 reed warbler (including one returning bird initially ringed in 2018), 4 willow warbler. Only 3 sedge warbler in five hours following 29 in 2.5 hours yesterday, indicating a substantial overnight clear out.
No bearded tit seen or heard by the ringing team, but a record from near the South Pond hide by a visiting birder (a young bird).
Coed Gelli Hir this afternoon. Good number of Spotted Flycatchers around the pond. A Sedge Warbler also present
Juv Goshawk over Reynoldston, this morning
Oxwich Marsh: 29 sedge warblers captured in a couple of hours, indicating good passage. Garden warbler, 9 reed warbler a few willow warbler and a young whitethroat. No evidence of bearded tit.
Oxwich Marsh: passage of reed and sedge warbler increasingly evident. Small influx of willow warbler and whitethroat. No sign of bearded tit. Goshawk over.
Oxwich Marsh: garden warbler, grasshopper warbler. Crossbill over. Sedge warbler influx continues, but lack of willow warbler this morning.
Oxwich Marsh Sat AM: 3 garden warbler, continued sedge and willow warbler passage. No bearded tits seen or heard.