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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.
Dipper on Cwm Stream at the back of Ashleigh Road playing fields earlier this morning. Also 12 curlew, 17 oystercatcher, 2 mistle thrush and 3 common gulls.
A couple more shots of the Parakeets in Morriston Park. I counted at least 10. Nice to speak to Jeremy whilst viewing them.
The Ring Necked Parakeet can easily be found, firstly by their noisy call, at the Park Lodge Road entrance. I found three very quickly on Sunday
Sunny walk around Craig-Y-Nos this morining. Can anyone identify this duck (right)? Ruddy maybe? Annoyingly, it was having a good sleep so I didn’t get a better view. There were otherwise a few mallard and little grebe in the water.
Mallard drake.The duck is on the left.
Ha!🤦🏼♀️ The colours looked different, must have been the way the light was catching it! That’s my excuse 😆
Oxwich Marsh: jack snipe, 20+ common snipe, chiffchaff, red kite over
Out on Whiteford point today : 3 Light Bellied Brents ( 2 ads) and a Barnacle Goose were lovely to see mixed in with the Dark Bellied Brent Geese, 4 Great Northern Diver, 260 Wigeon, 7 Grey Plover, 70 Ringed Plover, 120 Turnstone , 450 Dunlin, 29 Eider, 12 Redwing, 3 Water Rail. Good numbers of Pintail , Teal and Shelduck. Also several Siskin and a Lesser Redpoll feeding with a flock of Goldfinch. 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker and a green. At LLanrhidian The Pallid Harrier showed very well, also 2 Marsh and 2 Hen harrier – inc a male… Read more »
Raven being mobbed by crows this morning in Uplands
Red Kite flying over Fforestfach Cross yesterday lunchtime (26 Nov).
Est 120 jackdaws over Morrison’s in neath this afternoon,a few carrion crows with them.
just had my copy of gower birds well done to all concerned
with the production of an excellent report.
For anyone planning to go to the Gower Society talk on bird ringing tomorrow evening, please note that the start time is 19:00 (it has been variously advertised with differing start times)
Green woodpecker spotted in an apple tree in the garden in West Cross Lane
37 curlew, 38 oystercatcher and 4 common gulls on Ashleigh Road playing fields this morning. Also another 9 curlew, c.790 oystercatcher, 5 grey plover, 1 knot, 1 redshank and 6 teal at Blackpill.
Southward Lane, Langland.
Firecrest. Probable 1st winter male.
There has been a strong influx of wintering blackcap this November. 2 birds (male and female) in the garden this morning. Also a male yesterday.
Richard Dann has caught 20 different birds at Southgate since 1 November.
A Grey Wagtail near the Crofty dung heap (now much diminshed) this morning.
2 Red Throated Divers seen in Bracelet Bay late afternoon today.
Twi male blackcaps in the garden in Glynderwen this morning- feeding on rotten fruit on the apple tree.
Southward Lane, Langland. 1st winter firecrest captured this morning that was initially ringed here on 14 September. Indicates that some birds are lingering / wintering as opposed to moving through.
Llanrhidian. 2 female Marsh Harriers, Kestrel, Buzzard, in field by layby, Song Thrush family and Green Woodpecker
Clyne woods bridle path (Derwen Fawr side) 23rd November just before dusk. Two GS woodpeckers seen flying together. Green woodpeckers heard calling. 8-10 long tailed tits in one tree. Several jays spotted along the path. Also a several magpies enjoying an apple tree near the tip. Other species included robin, blackbird and wood pigeon.
Another Firecrest (1st winter male) captured in my garden on Pennard Cliffs this morning. Also captured was this 1st year female Sparrowhawk and another Blackcap which was probably part of the influx of the species that arrived here earlier this week.
A GOS walk from Cwm Ivy this morning: we got as far as the end of the pine woods only to be met by heavy rain. Only 20 or so species reported in poor conditions but in very good company. Better luck next time!
I stayed out and made it to Whiteford Point, by which time it was dry! My total was 50 for the day, and the list was: Bar Tailed Godwit, Black Headed Gull, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Brent Goose (DB), Buzzard, Crow, Chaffinch, Cormorant, Curlew, Dunlin, Dunnock, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, GBB Gull, GC Grebe (1), Great Northern Diver (2), GS Woodpecker, Great Tit, Grey Heron, Grey Plover, Herring Gull, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Jay, LBB Gull, Little Egret, Long Tailed Tit, Magpie, Merlin (F), Oystercatcher, Pallid Harrier, Peregrine (2, chasing a Woodpigeon), Pheasant, Pied Wagtail, Raven, Redshank, Redwing, Reed Bunting, Robin, Shelduck, Snipe, Song… Read more »
Firecrest: 1st winter male present yesterday on Southward Lane, Langland. Also 2 goldcrest, chiffchaff.
This afternoon.
Leason Pill. 25 Wigeon, 68 Teal, 2 GW Egret.
Llanrhidian Marsh. Hen Harrier 2 rt, Marsh Harrier 1 fem type, Pallid Harrier 1 rt
Dalton’s Point. Teal 57, Wigeon 26, Pintail 59, Greenshank 2, Dunlin 1056, Redshank 115.
35 species seen at Fendrod Lake today including:
1 Goosander, 5 Pochard, 5 Teal, 26 Tufted Duck, 22 Moorhen, 32 Coot, 1 Med Gull, 133 B H Gull, 214 Herring Gull, 1 Chiffchaff and 36 Mute Swan.
Unfortunately there were two dead Mute Swans, which I have reported and received confirmation that this has been logged and the relevant team hopes to retrieve them over the next couple of days.