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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.
Castell Du on Sat afternoon had 18 meadow pipit , 37 pied wagtail , 2 white wagtail , 135 wigeon , 12 teal , 10 gadwall , 6 mallard , 36 LBB gull , 10 GBB gull , 32 herring gull . 2 green shank which have overwintered and 2 common sandpiper
Oxwich Marsh and Bay: 25 snipe and 1 jack snipe on the marsh, along with two teal. In the bay, two red-throated divers, 1 great northern diver (asleep by the point) and a handful of great crested grebes
Pair of Dippers, 2 Male and 4 Female Goosanders on the Tawe this afternoon. Plenty of Redwings still around over the Garth.
Male Reed Bunting feeding on my lawn in Manselfield this morning. Male and female were also here last week. Busy morning on the bird feeders: 12 Goldfinches, Nuthatch, Blue, Great, Coal and Longtailed Tits, male and female Bullfinch, Greenfinches with Dunnocks and Chaffinches feeding on the lawn.
Escapee Chinese Goose, probably bird seen 2 weeks ago on Gnoll Park lake, now at the Ffendrod.
Neath saltmarsh
90+ Canada geese and 8 grey lag geese from the roundabout gate .
No blackcaps garden Brynfield Road this winter. Female on feeders 1230 today.
Thrilling to watch a pair of Kestrels actively hunting together on Clyne Common this lunchtime..
Picture of one of them .
Oxwich Marsh: two bramblings (females) with the siskin and goldfinch flock.
5 jays in a group. Two woodcock pre-dawn
A red kite over my garden in Briton ferry and a grey wagtail in my shed roof
Red Kite quite low over Pwll Mawr (Upper Killay pond) yesterday afternoon, heading towards Fairwood Common.
1st March, 3.30pm, Porteynon, Sedger’s Bank: 28 dark-bellied brent geese, one eider duck (1st winter male). 1porpoise.