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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.
Kittiwakes on the shelves and Redshank on the old lifeboat slip
58 Kittiwakes around Mumbles Pier this afternoon, 25 of them on the breeding ledges.
At least 40 kittiwakes at Mumes Pier this lunchtime
Sunday 1st March. Walked to Cefn Cwrt Res. via Baglan & Briton Ferry Woods with Phil Routliff, Rob Jones & Dave Cornish. A good flock of c120 chaffinches in the beeches near Jersey Park. The woods were alive with birdsong especially with the tit species. Two Redshanks swimming in the Res.was a remarkable record from there. 5 Buzzards floated over the Incline. A Peregrine was over Baglan.
Ashley Rd..
30+ oycs, 1 curlew, mix of lesser blackback, blackhead,herring gulls & 1 common… 4 pied wagtail, 50 starlings..
Pair of Grey Wagtails on the stream at Ilston this morning.
Several med gulls in Bracelet Car Park this morning..
Overwintering Polish Bird PHAN and a rather smart full plumaged adult
And a ringed herring gull.. not able to get any closer to read it but from the blue colour I reckon its a Gower Bird Hospital release
Following J. D-J’s post of yesterday, c300 Dunlin, c20 Turnstone and c10 Redshank roosting at high water on the slip of the old Mumbles lifeboat house this morning.
Flock of 150+ Dunlin wheeling about the old lifeboat house this morning at about 07.30.
Norton/West Cross
Just surprised to see a flock of 30+ blacktailed godwit wheeling in the bay before coming in to land on a small spit of gravel opposite Norton House.. 20 turnstones sheltering from the high tide on the sea wall
Upper Killay: 11 woodcock and a jack snipe in pasture fields near Upper Killay last night.
Very few common snipe at Oxwich today (2), with small numbers of teal and mallard on the South Pond.
Red kite over pasture at Nicholaston.
Other Gower news: spotted redshank present at Penclawdd (has been noted on and off for some time), 2 spoonbill at Wernffrwd, good numbers of purple sandpiper (up to 14) at Sedger’s Bank (Port Eynon) and great white egrets (2+) and a hen harrier at Llanrhidian.
Also the Iceland (Kumlien’s) gull at Aberavon Beach until early PM at least.
Gwyn Randall with Phil Routliff, Rob Jones & Dave Cornish. A co-ordinated low tide count on Margam Sands revealed an impressive 800+ Sanderlings plus equally impressive counts of c2500 Black-headed gulls, 4000+ Herring gulls,18 Great black- Backed,22 Common & 11 Lesser black- Backed. Other waders included 28 Ringed Plovers, just 13 Oystercatchers, 5 Curlew & 2 Dunlin. One Rock Pipit & a Peregrine also seen. A Canada Goose flying out to sea was unusual here.