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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.
At Llanrhidian marsh today the dark Female Hen harrier was still present with 2 other ringtails seen over the day , one in am and other pm. The dark female tends to show 11- 2pm mostly 7x yesterday, 4 times today. Still not got underwing shot
Other birds seen include 1 Barn Owl – out from 4.30pm , 3 Green Sand , 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Peregrine, 2 Red Kite , 90 lapwing , 300 Golden Plover, 10 Stonechat
A couple of record shots of the Yellow Wagtail at Castell Du.
This morning south of Loughor Bridge at HT
Little Egret 21, Wigeon 72, Oystercatcher 262 including an ashy grey amelanistic bird, Ruff 1, Curlew 13.
Snow bunting (2) at Whiteford
Report via Paul Stephens on Twitter. Photographed
Black redstart (female). Murton – just now. A nice surprise to see this in my mum’s garden when getting back from walking the collie…..
This afternoon.
Broughton Bay.
Common Scoter 181, Brent Goose 1, Oystercatcher 23, Swallow 1 in off, Goldcrest 2
Wernffrwd.
GW Egret 1, Green Sandpiper 1, Merlin 1, a nice male perched then chasing Linnets.
Dalton’s Point.
Bl t Godwit 202, Greenshank 5, Dunlin 759, Knot 29.
Penclawdd.
Little Grebe 1 on the pill.
Langland (Southward Lane) 3 firecrest, 3 goldcrest. Two of the firecrests captured and ringed. Third unringed bird noted.
Pale morph buzzard at Weobley this afternoon:
Castell Du this morning. Little Grebe 1, Greenshank 1, Black tailed Godwit 1, Lapwing 10, Gadwall 6, Meadow Pipit 28, Pied Wagtail 28, Yellow Wagtail 1, survived the attentions of the Sparrowhawk and still present. A grey-brown bird with whitish underpart ground colour with lemon wash on the undertail and on the rear flank on the rhs. Although the lores look dark there is a sub ocular pale patch within the dark ear covert area. Because of the length of the grass the hind claw could not be seen. Not heard to call (but at my age I probably wouldn’t… Read more »
Port Eynon this afternoon.
Gannet 8, Razorbill 2, Kittiwake 26, Common Scoter 4, Guillemot 29 all down channel. On the foreshore/rocks Med Gull 49, Purple Sandpiper 1, Sanderling 2.
Wernffrwd.
Greylag 105, GW Egret 2
Briton ferry,dusk
Constant stream of herring gulls in loose flocks est. 3to 400 heading toward the river neath estuary
Castell Du this morning.
Greendshank 1, Pied Wagtail 22, Lapwing 9, H Gull 99, LBB Gull 22, Little Grebe 1, Sparrowhawk 1 juv male. Plus Yellow Wagtail . The latter flushed by the Sparrowhawk before I could get a good look at it and with the windy conditions no call was heard. Not relocated.