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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.
Single Redwing at Manselfield Road today
Port Eynon. 12+ purple sandpiper (Sedgers Bank) with turnstone and ringed plover.
A brief seawatch resulted in a gannet, a fulmar and a red-throated diver (a couple seawatching had a lot more gannets).
Chiffchaff and goldcrest at Overton STW, and a red kite at Nicholaston on the way back.
Penclawdd around high tide today included Pintail (2) Little Egret, Red Kite, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Redshank (good numbers of all), Black Tailed Godwit (20+), Snipe (4), Teal and Wigeon (good numbers), Common Gull (2) and a sandpiper, believed to be Common Sandpiper.
3 scaup, 10+ red-breasted merganser, 75 eider, 2 common scoter, along with hundreds of knot, 1000s of oystercatcher, and good numbers of curlew, grey plover, wigeon and teal at Whiteford today. Couldn’t find a slav grebe, but the area was very blowy.
Pacific Diver is still present today on Eglwys Nunydd Res.
Recent accepted submissions by the local rarities committee.
Glamorgan Records Committee.
Accepted:
Siberian Chiffchaff
Port Talbot NPT. December 2021
Slavonian Grebe, Eglwys Nunydd
November 2021.
Long-tailed Duck Eglwys Nunydd
November 2021.
Ruddy Duck, Eglwys Nunydd
September 2021.
Spoonbill,
Port Talbot NPT. May 2021.
Mumbles Pier & Bracelet: a quiet hour or so with the only notable sighting being a redhead goosander flying over the pier towards the islands. Small waders largely roosting elsewhere, with only 9 turnstone and 6 dunlin on the pier (most on the new lifeboat slip). An adult w/pl Med gull at Bracelet.
Blackpill: 323 oystercatchers, 16 curlew
Sketty Lane playing field: 23 curlew, 6 oystercatchers, 123 black-headed gull, 12 common gull 3 Med gull
Ashleigh Road: 8 common gull, 6 Med gull (including yellow-ringed bird), 8 black-headed gull. Kingfisher flew through.
I had the unusual sight of a group of 25+ Ravens wheeling and croaking overhead on Pennard Cliffs this morning, after which they moved off slowly westwards.
4 brambling, 1 jack snipe and a marsh tit at Oxwich Marsh this morning.
Also 47 goldfinches and 36 blue tits captured and ringed / processed, and a woodcock in the hay field pre-dawn
A spoonbill at Dalton’s Point, Penclawdd at low tide this afternoon.
Nice Record Derek! Thank you for posting.
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Happy Christmas everyone.