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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.
Out at Weobley on this mornings high tide , good spread of small waders : 420 Dunlin , 400 Ringed plover , 35 Sanderling , 9 Knot , 7 Turnstone . 75 Linnet , 18 Meadow pipit , 22 Pied wag , 4 Wheatear . 5 Reed bunting and 4 Sedge warbler by the bridge . Juv Goshawk had the crows panicked . Up at Castell Du , 8 Greenshank , 4 Common sand , mixed flock of 42 Mallard and Gadwall (eclipse) on Grove farm pond roosting . single Yellow wag amongst 30 plus Pied wag . Juv Whinchat… Read more »
Nice couple of hours at Crofty this morning on the high tide: usual species included good numbers of Oystercatcher and Curlew, plus a few Whimbrel, Shelduck, LBB Gulls, GBB Gulls, Little and (3) Great White Egret. An Osprey did a nice fly-past, chased by various gulls. Smaller species included Linnet, Whitethroat and Goldfinch, plus good numbers of Swallows feeding over the marshes.
Two Common Swift above Clydach this evening.Last of the summer maybe ?
Crofty roost this evening in wet and murky conditions: 18 Sandwich, 15 Common & 2 Arctic Terns, 143 Common Gull, Whimbrel & 57 Curlew
Common terns at Crofty
Oxwich Marsh: nightjar, 8 reed warbler, 4 blackcap, chiffchaff early morning
Fenrod lake today,
30+mute swan,35 Canada geese,42. Black headed gulls,
60 herring gulls lots of juvs.
A few lesser b b gulls,usual coots,morhens,lots of mallard
In eclipse plumage a few tufted and a little grebe.
Last few days has seen tree pipit moving through, with 2 at Oxwich and 4 at Southgate.
At Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler, now 5:1 reed warbler to sedge warbler, with the local breeding sedges having apparently moved. Small numbers of willow warbler moving through and some very young chiffchaffs and wrens. Marsh tit in the reed bed (which there has been for at least a week) is less than annual, despite the good breeding population in the surrounding ancient semi-natural woodland. Kingfisher on the main channel.
Rheola pond
23 Cormorants roosting was a great count, also a moulting male Tufted
Weobley track
2 Great White egrets, 130 Linnet, 180 starling, 2 Golden Plovers, 4 Raven, 2 wheatear, green wood calling on way down, 15 GBB gull,2 Commic tern on est, 20 Rook feeding on SM.
Port Eyon
1 Arctic Skua, 2 Manx Shearwaters, 1 Dunlin, 2 Turnstone
,31 Med Gull ( 6 juvs) inc 3ILE white ringed ( old bird first obs this year)….17 Sandwich Tern
I’ve looked a few time this week for Chris’ gull, each search unsuccessful, mainly as the birds have mostly been sleeping. Counts of other species have included Canada Goose 312 (this, the biggest flock I’ve personally seen in the Burry/Loughor), Great White Egret 1, Herring Gull 155, Lesser Black-backed Gull 211, Little Ringed Plover 4, Ringed Plover 10, Dunlin 1, Greenshank 4, Common Sand 2, Green Sand 3, Whimbrel 1, Pied Wagtail 81 and Stock Dove 3.
possible ad Caspian gull up at Castell Du . seen at distance , bill , and posture looked ok hard to get any images of worth .
Crymlyn Burrows beach: Common ringed plover nest with one adult and 3 small chicks. The chicks looked only a few days old.
Mewslade 7 Aug. Juvenile Buzzard calling. Many Swallows, House and Sand Martins, 2 Chough, Yellowhammer pair, Linnets and Goldfinches, Gannet.
Oxwich Marsh: nightjar, grasshopper warbler, garden warbler, 25 sedge warbler, 10 reed warbler, 6 willow warbler, marsh tit
the ad Cattle Egret was back at Grove Farm pond this am . 2 greenshank , 2 green sand , 1 common sand also . approx 640 BH gull and 121 mallard between Loughor Bridge and the foreshore
Nightjar at Oxwich again this morning. Light passage of willow warbler and steady passage of sedge warbler again evident. Roost of several hundred swallows in the marsh last night.
This evening at aberavon over 30 med gulls over the seafront
Tight flock of about 20 swifts screaming over Tycoch at dusk.
A dozen Swifts flying and screaming a few hundred feet above West Cross just now 17.10 Wednesday.
Oxwich Marsh: nightjar (juv) pre-dawn this morning, plus a calling green sandpiper over. 19 sedge warbler, 6 reed warbler, willow warbler, chiffchaff
Belated news from last week. The Cattle Egret was still at Castell-du at the weeks end, plus proof that Oystercatchers bred there, in the form of a young chick
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SzEZr6QcVRwea7qb8
29th July Red kite over Bishopston and yellow ringed jackdaw on Oldway, Bishopston..
just noticed there is a plain metal ring on the other leg too.
It is one of Richard Dann’s birds colour-ringed as part of a population study. You can report is using the colour-marked bird reporter – see link in the Newsflash on the right hand side of this page.
Have you reported it Paul.. email me alunjohn69@gmail.com and I’ll send you the reporting link . They are ringed in a garden out on Pennard Cliffs by Richard Danny.. part of the Gower ringing group
https://gower-ringing-group.shinyapps.io/sightings/
28th July c60 swifts over Clyne Common, possibly feeding on swarms of flying ants. 80 herring gull and 10 lesser black back gulls on golf course also chasing ants. Female reed bunting and lots of skylarks,
7 swifts low over rooftops in Manselton today. Just the 1 Sparrowhawk in attendance
Quite a few Swifts over Manselton this morning. Some excitement when 2 Sparrowhawks joined in the chase. The Sprawks spent some time fighting themselves too.