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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.
Rhossili: 3 red-throated diver and 1 black-throated diver (per Eddie Hunter)
Friday 29th pm. Nice flock of 6 long tailed tits flying and feeding along Overland Road Mumbles.
Thursday 28th November approximately 11.00. Crymlyn Road Winch Wen. 3 Jays seen flying from road into trees. Have never seen more than a solitary Jay in this location previously.
Friday 29th Nov after high tide: great crested grebe at Bracelet Bay.
Some sightings from last week during my recent visit to Gower. Castell Du, two each of Green and Common Sandpipers and Greenshank, 3 GW Egret at Llanrhidian all on the 17th. 3RT Diver and a Slav Grebe at Rhossili plus a good candidate for a Black Scoter at Burry Holms (I assume the same individual I saw at Oxwich a couple of years ago but as then too distant to clinch), all on the 18th. 3 each of Goldeneye and RB Merganser south of the Loughor Bridge on the 19th. Water Pipit with the flock of Pied Wag/Meadow Pipits at… Read more »
Castell du
1 water pipit , 2 green sandpiper , 1 common sandpiper , 125 wigeon . 9 meadow pipit and 30 pied wagtail also on the salt marsh .
Jack snipe at Oxwich Marsh this morning. Photo courtesy of Richard Dann
Single Curlew on Ashley Rd playing fields this morning
… and one calling by the boat slip at Oystermouth yesterday.
Mumbles Pier this afternoon on the slipway
20 dunlin, 2 oystercatcher, 1 redshank and 6 turnstone
Only 3 med gulls in Bracelet Bay this morning.. quite a surprise as there is normally a big flock. Bad weather pushed them somewhere quieter for the day.. also no curlews present in the university playing fields
Yes, I counted 65 Mediterranean Gulls at Bracelet Bay on 4th November.
Firecrest, marsh tit at Pwll Du early morning.
We had a pleasant walk yesterday morning around Margam Moors and Margam Sands NPT with a few GOS members and GOS President Bob Tallack we seen 58 species Highlight was watching a Peregrine falcon eating a Moorhen on nearby pylon, other birds included very vocal Cetti`s Warblers and Water Ralis, 12 flyover Stockdoves, a few Redwings and 2 Ravens and there was least 80 Sanderling 20 Oystercatcher and 4 Curlew on Margam Sands.
Weobley this morning, approx 520 golden plover , 330 lapwing , 9 skylark, 2 rock pipit.
Castell du this afternoon, 106 Dublin, 55 lapwing, 9 redshank, 278 pied wagtail
Oxwich Marsh 24/11/19. Firecrest (2), chiffchaff (2) among 75 birds captured during ringing session.
Marsh tit in tit flock in Ilston Valley (c. 200 m up the track from the Gower Inn)
Members are invited to submit sightings on this page of Gower Ornithological Society’s new website.
21/11/19
Gower: No reports
Glamorgan: Long-tailed duck (Sker Point), marsh harrier (Kenfig NNR), water pipit (lower Ogmore Estuary), red-backed shrike still on the golf course between Pink Bay and Nottage.
20/11/19
Gower: no reports.
Glamorgan: bittern (Kenfig), long-tailed duck on flood tide at Sker, scaup off Prospect Place (Cardiff), snow bunting still at The Knap, Barry.
Pembrokeshire: ring-necked duck (1w drake) on North Pond, Skokholm flew towards the mainland.
Med Gull PHAN IN Bracelet Bay.. Polish bird ringed as an adult earlier this year
19/11/2019
Gower: great northern diver close in off Limeslade Bay at high tide
Glamorgan: yellow-browed warbler and firecrest still on the path to the visitor centre at Kenfig, red-backed shrike (1w) still on the golf course (near the care home) at Pink Bay, snow bunting at The Knap. Short-eared owl at Sker.
Carmarthenshire: snow bunting on the path to Burry Port lighthouse
18/11/19
Gower: no reports.
Glamorgan: Red-backed shrike on Kenfig Golf course between Pink Bay and Nottage, snow bunting at The Knap, Siberian chiffchaff, yellow-browed warbler and 2 ringtail hen harriers at Kenfig Pool, black redstart Kenfig life saving club, long-tailed duck, red-throated diver at Sker (with two purple sandpiper at the point), firecrest east of Sully at St Mary’s Well Bay below the Block House.
17 Nov 2019
Gower 2 Chough feeding on Rhossili Down OS Ref SS418884
17/11/2019 Gower: Siberian chiffchaff, firecrest (Oxwich), scaup (4) in the middle of the Burry Inlet off Crofty, water pipit (Upper Loughor), great northern diver at Aberavon Beach, black redstart at Ordnance Survey Grid Reference SS7351 9056 (Aberavon). Drake garganey Gnoll Park Lake – but of dubious origin. Ring-necked parakeet still at Fendrod. Glamorgan: firecrest, Siberian chiffchaff, yellow-browed warbler at Kenfig near visitor centre, snow bunting still at Barry (the Knap) – on rockery by flats between sunken garden and the toilets. Sker: 13 red-throated diver, great northern diver, long-tailed duck, and a purple sandpiper on the Point. Carmarthenshire: spotted redshank… Read more »
16/11/2019
Gower: ring-necked parakeet at Fendrod Lake
Glamorgan: Red-backed shrike on the golf course between Pink Bay and Nottage, Porthcawl. Snow bunting still at the Knap, Barry. Long-tailed duck on the flood tide at Sker. Black redstart by the buildings at Southerdown.
Gwent. Whooper swan with mute swan herd in fields south of lighthouse
15/11/2019
Gower: no reports
Glamorgan: snow bunting still at The Knap (Barry). Has been around the walled areas close to the skateboard park. Red-backed shrike reported in copse adjacent to path between Pink Bay and Nottage, Porthcawl.
13/11/2019
Gower: no news
Glamorgan: Richard’s pipit (Nash Point). Photographed and found by Graham Smith. Viewed from SS927677; snow bunting at The Knap (Barry).