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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.
Dartford Warbler reports increase year on year. This photo was taken by Gareth Watkins earlier this year on Southgate Cliffs.
Snow Bunting still on Tears Point 3pm today
The number of reports of Dartford Warbler is rising year on year. This photo by Gareth Watkins was taken earlier this year on the cliffs at Southgate.
Middleton/Mewslade/Rhossili this morning:
Yellow-browed Warbler with a couple of Goldcrests at the top of the path from Middleton to Mewslade (8am)
Black Redstart 1cy/female type bird above the Fig tree in Mewslade Valley briefly (c9.20am)
Snow Bunting – reported on birdguides at ‘Tears Point’, Rhossili – a quick walk down there revealed the bird still feeding on the slopes at 51.560189, -4.297031 (0230pm)
Other birds included: Spotted Flycatcher (Middleton), 11 Goldcrest, 6 Blackcap, 10 Chiffchaff, 13 Song Thrush, 21 Brambling, 3 Swallow, House Martin, c.250 Chaffinch
Phone-binned shot of the Snow Bunting
Yellow-browed warbler at Middleton, Gower this morning (per Ed O’Connor)
Photo from twitter attached
c. 1000 Starlings on the wires at Berthlwyd saltmarsh 19/10/21. 2 Redshank and a solitary little egret at Penclawdd pill.
2 Songthrush, 7 Collared Doves and 24 Goldfinch on the tree in centre of cul de sac in Penllergaer.
50+ Goldfinch, 3Jays around my garden in Penllergaer on Sun 17th.
Is this an ordinary redshank? I saw it at Three Cliffs at the weekend, but it seemed larger and greyer than the ones I see at Mumbles.
Common redshank.. nice picture
Thanks for that info. Perhaps it looked bigger because there were no other birds around.
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-16-october-2021-late-autumn-arrives-with-a-tseep/
At Rhossili today a juvenile Goshawk was showing really close on and off for an hour in the fields by the green shed, at times perching on posts between the hedge and rear of shed. it was getting a lot of attention from a dive bombing kestrel too. Migrants around definitely increased in the mid afternoon after a quiet morning with 12 Goldcrest, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, 2 Redwing , 6 Chiffchaff. A Firecrest at Middleton farm was showing very well at times in the late afternoon. 8 Jays flew very high east, 2 Green Woodpeckers At Daltons point there… Read more »
Huge number of gulls (7 spp but HG &. BH most abundant) in the Burry South of Loughor Bridge this evening, more than I’ve ever seen in this section in 30 years. 133+ Little Egrets in the throng, the closer one’s feeding on sandeels. Other bits and bobs included 2 Sandwich Terns, 28 Barwits, 250 Blackwits, Ruff, 2 Great Whites & 79 Cormorants
GBB, Herring, LBB, YL, Common, Med & BH