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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.
Large flock of starlings (several 100) on Ashleigh Road playing fields. Also a large number of gulls, crows and quite a few Oystercatcher and Curlew earlier in the morning. All seen at distance from the upstairs window as we’re not going outside until the wind drops!
Saturday’s field Trip to Margam has been CANCELLED due to this storm. We hope to find a replacement date but at present we hope you will all stay safe. The next trip is to Banwen on March 26th See you then.
Hundreds of gulls on Ashley Rd Playing fields . Mainly bh.. with a good sprinkling of common, a few med & herring gulls.. 20+ curlew.. 12 oycs..
Also 100+ jackdaws.. and a small mobile flock of starlings
Feb 10th Rhossili nr coastguard look out, 3 cosy pairs of fulmar on adjacent ledges and another circling up annoyingly close. Dartford warbler in Fall Bay,
Baglan rugby field 4 o clock 55 black headed gulls.17 herring gulls.2 lesser b b gulls and a common gull .
Plenty of Kittiwakes at Mumbles Pier in water and on nesting platform. Raven observing proceedings from old lifeboat house bridge. Turnstone and Dunlin on old ramp.
Rhossili: a couple of chough on the Inner Head of the Worm. Also a displaying rock pipit there. Other passerines limited to dunnock, meadow pipit and stonechat.
The Vile was quiet. 2 flocks of approx 50 goldfinch, the odd skylark and a (probable) first winter male sparrowhawk.
Red kite at Knelston
Despite football in progress, there were 41 Curlew and 61 Oystercatcher in heavy rain on Ashleigh Road playing fields at 3pm this afternoon.
Female bullfinch and male blackcap in my garden in sketty cross. A redwing eating ivy berries in the scrubland behind sketty cross.
Nice to see several Goshawks still on usual territory’s yesterday in the county. Also a pair of nest material carrying Crossbill and another pair in courtship with a rival male tagging along. Also 2 Brambling , 40 Siskin , Red kite and a male Peregrine at a usual site, there had been a female here too in December but no sign yesterday.
East Gower Cliffs (11/02): first sighting of a Dartford warbler for me this year. Better though was that it was in a territory that did not appear to be occupied last year (after the very cold Feb), but had been occupied for the previous c. 8 years at least
Where are east gower cliffs pls?
Glossy Ibis flying north west over Swansea Vale at around 5.30pm