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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.
A pair of Little Grebe on Broad Pool this morning. Also a grey heron, swallows and pied wagtail.
Need help identifying this warbler please. (Cwm Ivy marsh this morning)
Sedge Warbler
That’s great, thanks.
At least 3 swifts and 5 martin’s feeding high above the river below Sgwd Gwladys on Saturday afternoon. Also several grey wagtail, dipper, blackcaps and a party of c10 siskin.
Small birds plentiful on Cefn Bryn this afternoon: Reed Bunting, Linnet, Skylark, Stonechat, Whitethroat, Meadow Pipit (shown), Blackbird.
Aberdulais area a grey wagtail on the golf range grass oblivious of the golf balls flying by also 2 great spotted woodpeckers over in the aberdulais basin family party of grey wagtail including 3 juvs and a dipper
Terrible picture, but help/attempts to identify would be useful – Grey Wagtail? Today flying loops over the pond at Gelli-hir woods
Correct-Grey Wagtail.
Thanks, really helpful.
Walk from Mewslade over to Rhossili coastguard hut. Single Gannet seen off the Worm. 4 Choughs east of Fall Bay. Kestrel, Red Kite, many Linnets and Whitethroats. Around a dozen Swifts. Surprisingly only 3 Stonechats a M, F and Juv.
A single Swift over my house here in West Cross this afternoon. The first I have seen here this year.
Juvenile male Sparrowhawk just landed on our bird feeder and perched for a few minutes showing his inexperience..expecting the passerines to arrive!
Anywhere near Newton?
09/06 GS woodpecker fledgling being fed by female in our garden in Sketty yesterday afternoon, would have loved to take a picture but a magpie scared them off
A ring-billed gull about 100m out from Mumtaz restaurant in Mumbles at 7:30 last night. Are they spotted fairly often?
RING-BILLED GULL L. delawarensis
GWYLAN FODRWYBIG
Scarce but regular in the gull flocks at Blackpill until recently. First recorded there on
14 * March 1973 (first British record). Occasional elsewhere.
Cliff walk this morning between Limeslade and Rotherlade : one Gannet, 8 seals and very unusually a Lapwing flying up and down the coast.