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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.
Iceland/kumlien Gull still at Aberafan beach this morning.. favouring the breakwater end.. via @glambirder on Twitter
Stonechat showing well at the ruins of the pier at Swansea.
Turnstones on the new lifeboat slip way 17/2/20 Rock pipit on rocks by path in Mumbles 17/2/20
Red kite over fendrod lake today 22nd, @ 12.07.
Iceland gull on Aberavon Beach today (from Twitter)
Walk down Aberavon beach this afternoon.
Herring Gulls 380 + flying South towards Steel Works to roost.
4 little egrets on Murton Lane. Redwing and long tailed tits in Oystermouth Castle Woods this afternoon
Rhossili 1pm-3pm Flock of 60+ Linnet on the fields (counted from a photo), Choughs 2
Llanrhidian Marsh Road 11.30 ish 21/02 3 Spoonbills,1 Great White Egret, 5 Canada Geese, lots of Shelducks and Little Egrets
Two Great White Egrets on Llanrhidian Marsh this lunchtime.
Drake Garganey at Gnoll Country Park in the rain today.
Oxwich South Pond
Good numbers of mallard, 6 teal, 1 snipe, 1 grey wagtail, 20+ goldfinch..2 male sparrowhawk
Surprisingly no gadwall, little grebe or mute swans