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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.
All. This is a sightings page. Please can we confine our posts to bird and related wildlife sightings (dolphins etc)
The western reef heron has made it to Kidwelly
Present 8:02 AM yesterday
Kilvrough Park Farm this afternoon: Clouded Yellow. 15:50 in the Murton Lane at Espalone: a weasel crossing the road. Chiefly I was trying to photograph swallows.
2 swifts over Ashleigh Road at 4.30pm this afternoon.
From the look out platform over the river in neath near Morrison’s two common. Sandpiper. 21 black headed gulls and 14 mallard.
Limeade this morning 0745: one gannet, 2 seals and a small flock of shearwaters flying over a pod of dolphins.
Oxwich Marsh AM: garden warbler, first significant influx of sedge and willow warbler noted. Crossbill over. Clearly birds starting to move.
PM: Peregrine over. Several hundred swallows in to roost at dusk.
Oxwich 2 bearded tits seen briefly around midday.
Canon lens cap found in hide, I’ve put on the table
Dartford warbler – in site not usually frequented so wondered if maybe relocated after recent gorse fire – also2 chough over coast path near caswell Friday and Saturday .
A Merlin being mobbed by Swallows at Llanrhidian marsh this afternoon.
Black-headed gulls have been back from their nesting sites for a bit over two weeks now, some birds are beginning to show signs of molting
Oxwich Marsh AM: kingfisher (different bird from 17/7), grasshopper warbler, 2 bearded tit (juv males).
Bearded Tit
Ringing at Oxwich today: this Bearded Tit wax re-captured.
Oxwich Marsh: green sandpiper, bearded tit (3+ including juv male and female), kingfisher. Good numbers of warblers present, with willow and sedge warbler influx apparent and a lot of fledgling reed warblers.
Six Manx Shearwaters off Mumbles Head this morning.
I’m sure this is just a tufted duck but looks quite scaup-ish. Gnoll 2nd pond February 14th 2026
Hi, Owain. I’ve been meaning to reply to an earlier post of yours on here but not got around to it, regarding swift sightings. It maybe of interest to you and others that there are a couple of WhatsApp groups for swift sightings, birds and general wildlife in the NPT recording area. Just join the community chat and pick which groups suit you. If you’d like to be added please drop me an email on nptswifts@gmail.com with your phone number and I can add you in. This applies to anyone that sees this, please drop me an email and I… Read more »
Alright cheers
Poplars in Ilston Valley, 1 Spotted Flycatcher adult feeding a very spotty juvenile.
Oxwich Marsh: bearded tit present on main channel this morning.
Two nightjar over the marsh last night.
Starling roost was up to a few hundred birds last week, but a more modest roost at the moment of less than 100. Small swallow roost of c. 50 birds with the odd sand martin present.
Gnoll mallards are also doing poorly with less chicks than last season, however coots and moorhens are with their chicks surviving and fledging. Mandarins haven’t bred there yet but it’s possible for them to start.
Bad year for the 2nd pond mute swans – Only 1 chick.
However, for the pair on the 3rd pond this is the first year I’ve seen them breed with 6 chicks present.
The Med Gulls have returned to Bracelet Bay, Manx Shearwaters flying up channel in good numbers this morning off the head between Bracelet and Limeslade and from the path to Rotherslade Stonechat, Linnet, Swallow and Dartford Warbler seen.
Oxwich this morning. Briefest of visits from 2 Bearded Tits (m & f).
In the last four or five days I have been to Snaple Point three times, and from there a short distance towards Caswell. I saw whitethroats each time, close to the path. The shot attached was taken this evening.