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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.
Two Grasshopper Warblers and a Sedge Warbler were at Pant-y-Sais this morning. Two Tree Pipits singing near Banwen Pyrddin and lots of Redstarts present in the area. Then mid-afternoon involved a dash to Rhossili to see two birds found earlier by Judd Hunt, Phil Bristow and Mike Powell – a moulting Red-necked Grebe showing distantly in Rhossil Bay and nearby at Tears Point a Hoopoe was feeding away happily in one of the fields adjacent to the Coastal Path
Two sedge warblers and at least two reed warblers singing at Crymlyn Bog this morning.
One Cuckoo calling on Mynydd Carnllechart.10.04.2025
Counts from the sandbar which remains exposed on the neap high tides in the upper section of the Burry, over the last two evenings (8th/9th), included: Shelduck (10/25), Oystercatcher (1,261/242), Ringed Plover (1/0), Dunlin (0/2), Bar-tailed Godwit (0/9), Black-tailed Godwit (522/463), Knot (58/29), Common Sandpiper (0/1) and Black-headed Gull (358/163). Both species of godwit are so colourful at present.
Black Redstart on clifftop between West Cliff and Pobbles, Southgate this morning.
m + f Blackcap in Middleton garden this morning
Two reed warblers singing at Pant y Sais Fen this morning. Also willow warbler, blackcap, chiffchaff, Cetti’s warbler.
Willow tit and Great Spotted Woodpecker in the woodland above Overland Road Mumbles this afternoon.
Osprey flew low over my garden above Caswell 14.00. Getting mobbed by Seagulls as it headed North West.
My first cuckoo of the year, just north of Ilston
Two swallows over Kittle Egg Farm earlier. First I’ve spotted them there this year.
Two early reed warblers singing at Crymlyn Bog this morning. Also several singing willow warblers and blackcaps, along with many chiffchaffs.
Swallows over Middleton Rhossili yesterday morning flying east.
My first singing whitethroat of the year at Lunnon this morning. Also singing stock dove
Crossbills in the conifers near Langland Corner this morning and over the past couple of days.
6th April: 1 Tree Pipit, 4+ Willow Warblers, 3+ Blackcaps, 5+ Linnets, pair of Siskins, and 2+ Redpolls on Kilvey Hill in morning.
Hoopoe reported in the Higher Lane area of Langland 19.00 this evening.
Blackcap singing Widegate Farm Pennard this afternoon. 1728 tawny owl hooting in Bishopston Valley.
Crymlyn Bog, 1 White Wagtail male with horses. Ashlands pond 2 Swallows, 1 Snipe.
Yesterday 4 house martins back at lan coed house Llandarcy ,one of last year’s nests been taken over by a pair of house sparrows.
2 shelduck on Broad Pool at 0746 today. At 0817 the same (?) 2 flying north-west over Cefn Bryn. At 0913: 5 geese, no doubt greylags, flying over Cefn Bryn in the direction of the estuary. Much has been burnt on Cefn Bryn, chiefly east of the path from the carpark to Arthur’s Stone. I hope the smell of burning persists and makes it harder for the very many free-range dogs to sniff out nests.
An Osprey was drifting west with wind high over the Kenfig Industrial Estate at 17:45. Earlier a light trickle of hirundines heading west over the Kenfig River Marsh into NPT was an enjoyable early Spring spectacle. Between 16:15 to 17:30 – 3 House Martin, 42 Swallow and 35 Sand Martin. Also of note two Painted Lady (1 on Morfa Tip and the other just OOC in Kenfig Dunes)
Late afternoon on Cefn Bryn: golden plover numbering exactly 63+1 individuals. The “+1” is a grey at bottom right of photo. (Not sure til I post it, if I have sized it wrongly.)
Great photo Peter. Very interesting to see the grey with the golden plover
I agree with Owain. Nice record and record shot!
One Swallow and one House Martin at Rhossili today. (Both firsts for me this year!) Other notables were a pair of Great Northern Divers off the Causeway, at least 10 Wheatear, perhaps 5 Skylarks singing, one Chough, one Fulmar, one Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipits and a Rock Pipit. Plenty of Stonechats and Linnets around too, including a flock of at least 30 of the latter. Two Common Dolphins were reasonably close in as was a single Grey Seal.