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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.

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PAUL GRIFFITHS
PAUL GRIFFITHS
7 August 2022 14:35

Sat 6th, 54 swallows on telegraph wires above Mewslade farm and another 30 or so flying in and out and around farm buildings. Yellow hammer singing near Mewslade quarry. Hummingbird Hawkmoth, 2 chough and female kestrel on Thurba Head.

Owain Gabb
7 August 2022 11:34

Caswell Bay: 20 Mediterranean gulls with 90 black-headed gulls and a redshank at the eastern end on the dropping tide.

Lukas Le Grice
Lukas Le Grice
7 August 2022 10:55

Dalton’s Point this morning low tide: 115 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel, 600 minimum Oystercatcher, 105 Redshank, 1 Greenshank. 61 Little Egret all feeding together with 1 Heron and 1 Great White Egret. Also 9 Shelduck and 3 Great-crested Grebe.

Penclawdd Pill this morning: 15 Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull.

Yesterday Morning Bracelet Bay: 25 Mediterranean Gull, 4 Common Gull. Out at sea 35 Sandwich Tern, 1 Gannet, 3 Razorbill, 2 Shearwater, 1 Kittiwake.

Owain Gabb
6 August 2022 14:20

Oxwich Marsh: 2 green sandpiper, recently fledged grasshopper warbler (confirming local breeding), 4 garden warbler, kingfisher (juvenile female), 37 greenfinch, 51 siskin, 28 reed warbler, 31 sedge warbler, 22 willow warbler.

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Jeremy Douglas-Jones
Jeremy Douglas-Jones
5 August 2022 12:57

This morning at 0700 twenty plus gannets in the distance off Limeslade diving on a shoal. A peregrine flew west along the coast toward Langland.

Paul Larkin
Paul Larkin
4 August 2022 23:42

This morning. South of Loughor Bridge at HT. Canada Goose 62, Greylag 1, Oystercatcher 1139, Whimbrel 4, Med Gull 1 2nd summer, Black t Godwit 1. Bwlchymyndd foreshore car park. Mallard 45, Greenshank 1. This afternoon. Afon Lliw, Island Bridge, Loughor. Dipper 1 (seen regularly here in winter but this is my first summer sighting), Kingfisher 1, Moorhen 1. Penclawdd. Greenshank 1, Redshank 56. Llanrhidian. GW Egret 3, roosting at the mouth of Leason Pill, Greylag 52, Canada Goose 2. This evening. Castell Du. Stock Dove 5, LBB Gull 75, Herring Gull 18, GBB Gull 2, Little ringed Plover 1… Read more »

Lukas Le Grice
Lukas Le Grice
5 August 2022 20:33
Reply to  Paul Larkin

Hi Paul.
Nice observations.
I was just wondering, where is Castell Du? I would like to see the Little ringed plover.
Thanks

Lukas Le Grice
Lukas Le Grice
4 August 2022 14:41

Penclawdd Marsh this morning:
160 Graylag Goose, 210 Canada Goose over on the eastern side of the marsh near the Afon Lliw.
Also lots of gulls 90 Herring, 40 Lesser black-backed, 50 Black-headed and 1 Yellow-legged mixed in.
Low shorebird numbers 2 Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 11 Curlew, 10 Oystercatcher, and 6 Common Sandpiper.
In the marsh grasses upwards of 30 Pied Wagtail with 1 Gray mixed in. Also 20 Meadow Pipit and 2 Skylark.
Other notable birds include 2 Red Kite, 1 Kingfisher, and 1 Treecreeper.

Paul Larkin
Paul Larkin
3 August 2022 22:37

Port Eynon this afternoon.

No sign of any seabird movement but, Gannet 4 off shore, Med Gull 41, Sandwich Tern 31, Ringed Plover 3, an adult with three well grown young.

Owain Gabb
3 August 2022 16:36

Oxwich Bay: 33 sanderling, s/pl knot, 2 Mediterranean gull, Sandwich tern all on foreshore at dawn.

Paul Larkin
Paul Larkin
2 August 2022 22:49

2 1/2 hour sea watch at Mumbles this afternoon from Castell Mare. I note the restaurant is trying to prevent access to the path round the headland (which I ignored). Arctic Skua 1 up channel after a brief pas de deux with a juv LBBG, then probably the same down channel later. Fulmar Petrel 5, Gannet 39, Manx Shearwater 9, Common Tern 2, all down channel. Sandwich Tern 2 fishing off shore, Razorbill 3 off shore. On the rocks 35 Med Gull all adults bar a 2nd summer and 2 juvs. One colour ringed adult which flew off before I… Read more »

Paul Larkin
Paul Larkin
1 August 2022 23:14

This afternoon.
Penclawdd. Redshank 35, Common Sandpiper 1

Dalton’s Point. Shelduck 1 adult with a well grown brood of 5 young.

This evening.

South of Loughor Bridge. Curlew 34, Oystercatcher 586, Black-tailed Godwit 12, Redshank 3, Greylag 3.

Lukas Le Grice
Lukas Le Grice
1 August 2022 10:46

Yesterday evening 31/7 Penclawdd Marsh.
Female Blackcap, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler and 1 Chiffchaff. A minimum of 150 swifts screaming with 12 House Martin, 15 Swallow, and 2 Sand Martin mixed in. Flocks of 120 Greylag Geese and 20 Canada Geese far out on the marsh. Also an active pair of Buzzards hunting and a Red Kite.

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Owain Gabb
7 February 2024 08:50

Dear All We are now in the breeding season. For Schedule 1 species at risk of disturbance at the nest, we need to ensure that any sightings do not provide information that may lead to their disturbance. This includes cliff-nesting species such as Dartford warbler and chough which have been targeted by photographers (some of whom have used tape lures) in recent years, and species expanding their range / becoming locally commoner in some parts of the recording area such as red kite and goshawk. Please be aware of this in your posting. A list of Schedule 1 species that… Read more »

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