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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.
Great Northern Diver just drifting past Mumbles pier on the outgoing tide . Nice views in the pouring rain 🌧️🌧️
Med gull White 3LYV seen earlier this week in Bracelet Bay.. was ringed as a >3 cy bird in Brussels in 2017..
This was first time seen out of Belgium since then..
This bird that I think is a lesser whitethroat has been visiting my bird feeder in West Cross regularly for the last two days. Possibly one of the Asian sub species from replies on a posting I sent to bird forum.
Very nice…
A male greenfinch on my feeders this afternoon; a rare pleasure.
Bracelet Bay
At least 25 med gulls
2 colour ringed birds seen
Red PHAN
White 3LYV
just after high water this morning at Castellated Du , 1 water pipit , 4 meadow pipit , 6 pied wag , 195 wigeon , 18 teal,85 BH gull , 30 common gull , 35 herring gull , 6 LBB gull , 2 GBb gull , 8 redshank, 2 lapwing , 1 curlew .
a 1st w/p YL gull was near Loghor boat club later on .
on Jan 2nd approx 370 common gull at Broughton bay
At Blackpill in the pm today was just 5 Med Gulls coming to bathe and drink , 1 Yellow Legged Gull – 1st CY ( Different bird to previous 1cys), 1 Argentatus Herring Gull, 44 Ringed Plover, 200 Dunlin, 7 Bar tailed Godwit, 2 Little Egret, 1 G C Grebe and 4 Greenfinch
At Blackpill this afternoon there was around 40 Med Gulls ( adults and a single 1st year) 3 White colour ringed and one yellow – of which I managed to read 3 of. No sign of any Yellow Legged Gulls today in with the Herrings. Also 1 G BB Gull , 80 Common Gull, 40 Dunlin, 2 Ringed Plover and a male Peregrine came in causing havoc. A dog was seen to attack a Carrion Crow obviously very distracted by what it was eating ,which then luckily managed to get loose and get away.
There were 2 Common Sandpipers on the muddy river bank by the main car park at Penclawdd at lunchtime today.
Last Monday, 27th December, a male Pochard had joined the male Wigeon, the Little Grebe and the Tufted Duck on Brynmill Park lake.
At Blackpill today this afternoon over 3 hours – there was a nice procession of Gulls roosting, bathing before been pushed off by the tide including a min of 45 Med gulls all Adults except for 3 2nd CY and a single 1 CY bird. 3 were ringed 2 white 1 green. Also 5 Yellow legged gulls only showed when most birds had been pushed off coming in when all other large gulls had long left to a fragment of the beach- 1 2 CY the rest 1CY and the 1 CY birds looking plumage wise to be from the… Read more »
Knab Rock – lunchtime
Very quiet in the bay..
Few gulls, mainly herring
1 guillemot & 1 great crested grebe..
Thought there would be more about seeing such rough seas in Bracelet bay
Penclawdd this afternoon- large flocks of bar tailed godwits and oystercatchers getting dive bombed by a crow. Small numbers of purple sandpiper and ringed plover, also a lone curlew. A teal and pochard also spotted. Also what looked like a ruddy duck in the distance, but it was a bit too far away and getting dark.