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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.
Barnacle Goose still on Ffendrod Lake. Also a Common Gull seen.
Around 2:30, six Spoonbills flew along the edge of the marsh at Wernffrwd, then after passing Salthouse Point, crossed the estuary heading towards Penclaceydd. Later, during a pre-dusk watch at Llanrhidian I saw a nippy little male Merlin co-hunting (there’s a posh name for this I remember) with one of two Hen Harriers, also 3 Kestrels, Goshawk, Red Kite, Buzzard. At Wernffrwd there were 1,012 Lapwing, plus c.800 Golden Plover were flying around and 342 D-b Brent were on the estuary.
Friday. Red Kite seen over Mewslade. Possibly the same bird seen an hour later over Fall Bay. Kestrel hovering over Fall Bay. Small raft (8-10) Common Scoter seen between The Worm and Rhossili.
This is going to sound odd, but Rose-Ringed Parakeet in our Bishopston garden just now. Really good view of it, and it also made the unmistakeable shrieking call. Flew off before I could get my camera (phone). Quite uncanny as we were in Virginia Water watching lots of them only yesterday.
Hi Stephen. They are around locally – particularly at Morfa / Llansamlet. I had one in Clyne Gardens last year, and there used to be one in Singleton Park.
Thanks Owain.
did you check the contents of your boot before you left Virginia Water ?
Great northern diver east past Snaple Point, Langland this morning.
Also shag fishing in outer bay
Baglan pool
Late afternoon 85 black headed and 15 herriing gull
1 little egret 1 heron 4 mallard few goldfinches robins ,blackbirds, song thrush, 10 magpie and coot, in the flow off pool
Oxwich Marsh: woodcock in field prior to dawn. Jack snipe with common snipe, male brambling among finch flock. Siskins back following a brief absence.
3 Purple Sandpiper were with 6 Turnstone and a Rock Pipit on the Aberavon beach sea wall on the rising tide. A Peregrine was perched on top of the outer breakwater and a Med Gull was on the sea. Where the housing is to be built along the sea front road a Stonechat was on the security fencing.
Barnacle Goose currently at Fendrod Lake with the Canada Geese.
Penclawdd Pill lunchtime 1@ of Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Great White Egret, Kingfisher & Merlin.
A pair of adult Whooper or Bewick’s Swans currently sat off Crofty with Brent Geese (viewed in heat haze from the Carms side of the estuary. A male Marsh Harrier flew over them this morning when scoped from the WWT Llanelli office
Whoopers I think. I saw them from Salthouse Point, Crofty before they swam off upstream.
Pennard:
5 chough around the golf course today . 2 appeared very tame and let us approach to about 2 MTRS.. playing golf so no camera unfortunately
2 sparrowhawk overhead
Chaffinch.. first I’ve heard and seen for ages and lots of rooks gathering nesting material
These are probably the same five — but from very far away.
Probably . Great to see the picture..😀