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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.
Oxwich Marsh: 16 goldcrest, 22 long-tailed tit, 10 blackcap, 15 chiffchaff, reed warbler. Sparrowhawk over. Light passage of skylark and meadow pipit and a pulse of swallows late morning
Recent report from Penmaen resident of four gannets dead or dying Three Cliffs. This evening, Wednesday, transitioning gannet (? third year) down on Kilvrough Park Farm apparently vigorous but without the means to fly. Gower Bird Hospital helpful but will not accept infected bird.
This morning at Mumbles Pier over 80 Kittiwakes on the shelving and surrounding ledges.
Oxwich Marsh 03/10: firecrest (male), 7 goldcrest, 16 chiffchaff, lesser redpoll. First redwing of the year heard pre-dawn.
A kestrel and a nuthatch seen from the Llanrhidian to Weobley coastal path this afternoon.
Limeslade to Rotherslade this morning a continuous stream of migrating Swallows. Dozens, perhaps hundreds.
loughor foreshore , 1 large ruff juv , 2 juv curlew sand , 55 dunlin , 115 b t godwit didn’t get round to tallying the wildfowl or gulls
Dotterel: Whiteford Point 22/09/2022
Photo by Rob Jones
The bird found by Barry Stewart on 21/09 and relocated by Rob at 07:17 the following morning
Port Talbot Dock (per Darryl Spittle): 29 Mediterranean gull, 25 curlew, 162 oystercatcher, 8 bar-tailed godwit, 6 dunlin and a ringed plover on the foreshore. Water rail, Cetti’s warbler, kestrel, and kingfisher around the docks. Guillemot and 2-3 harbour porpoises inshore waters.
A blustery couple of hours at Salthouse Point after the very high tide this morning yielded a few things, including many Oystercatchers, Curlews, Pintail, Teal, Wigeon, a Kingfisher, a Great Crested Grebe, LBB Gulls, Linnets, Grey and Pied Wagtails, Little Egrets, a Great White Egret and a pair of (Dark Bellied) Brent Geese.
Swift video
We were entertained by these magnificent swifts in Corfu town last week. Also saw a pair of Honey Buzzards on several occasions.